Sneak Preview: Dark Meat

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Sneak Preview: Dark Meat

Published Friday, August 18, 2006 by Jeff | E-mail this post

You've probably heard a lot of critical raves about Dark Meat by now (aka Dark Meat/Vomit Lasers Family Band/Galaxy); they're the multi-headed, slobbering chimaera that's been haunting Athens alleys, swallowing up passers-by and recruiting them into the band, and every couple weeks or so putting on a spectacular show: a stage crammed with horn-players (the Vomit Lasers), female backup singers (in the Motown tradition), and other costumed rocking ephemera. Led by Jim McHugh (vocals/guitar) and Ben Clack (bass), the premise of the band seems to be to take the Wall of Sound concept and transform it into something a bit more aggressive. Now they're about to have their first record, Universal Indians, released on Cloud Recordings, and I thought the skeptical might want to sample their sound. Here are two tracks from the record (I like "Angel of Meth" in particular):

Angel of Meth
Deadman

Expect a review of Universal Indians closer to the album's release date: October 24.

Dark Meat tour dates
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