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Wall of Arms preview!

April 20, 2009 at 7:54 pm 2 comments

Written preview, that is. No audio just yet, it seems. Bummer.

Ellie Brown over at The-Fly.Co.UK has written a few words on every track from The Maccabees’ upcoming “Wall of Arms”. As the release date gets closer and closer (May 4th!!), the anticipation keeps on building.

‘William Powers’
The Maccabees fall off the rails with this adventurous journey of ‘William Powers’. It starts off with throbbing strings and spiky drumming, but the vocals build up an inexorable tension, broken by fragile soft “I’ll see you when you’re older”. A burst of drums break up some guitar fury and at one point the song really turns up the heat and the drumming pace picks up like The Killer’s ‘All These Things That I’ve Done’. The song has more sides to it than a Rubix Cube and takes a few listens to really appreciate its intricacies.

Let’s not be insulted by the reference to The Killers, instead let’s be excited about how great it will be to hear a proper recording of “William Powers” after all these years! READ THE REST OF THE ALBUM PREVIEW HERE. 

Damn it’s going to be good.

The Maccabees played an acoustic instore two days ago over at London’s Sister Ray as part of Record Store Day and rocked none other than a melodica! How great. You can hear the melodica maccasounds in action on this clip (the sound is a bit off because of the zooming, but after you skip to about 1:14 it’s all goooood):
 

You can also hear the melodica on this clip of “Love You Better”, but the zooming messes with the sound quite a bit. My guess was that the melodica would sound brilliant on it…and I was right.

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