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The Vickers – Ghosts

admin — Sat, 17 May 2014 12:44:50 +0000

A kaleidoscopic trippy riot of an album, Ghosts is a gliding and whirling journey through sixties melodies and nineties swagger from Italian band The Vickers.

There’s a hypnotic pulse throughout, and it feels vital. All I Need echoes with the sound BRMC would make if they took a load of ‘shrooms, whilst the spiral of descent on Hear Me Now glimmers with Revolution era stunning simplicity. Flourishes of Led Zeppelin flirt with a Kasabian bounce and a delirious almost The Coral esque spaced out vibe. A dense spectrum of shades and sounds flickers in these twisting waves, luring you in until you love from the poppy first single She’s Lost to the slow, quivering On A Rope. Senseless is a personal highlight, a gentle roll of angsty acceptance, particularly when followed by the shuffling stomp of On and On. The whole thing has a dense illusory feel, subtle quivers and colourful swoops flourishing along with a hypnotic whirl, but isn’t so complex as to be baffling, chock full of pop hooks and looping melodies.
Signed to Ireland’s Ruby Music, the Florence band (Andrea Mastropietro, Federico Sereni and Francesco Marchi – swoonsome names) aren’t well known over here (can you name any Italian bands?) but surely will be soon. Wonderful stuff.

Radio radio radio – August 9th

admin — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 15:51:39 +0000

New show from Thoughts & Rhythms, you betcha.
1. Hockeysmith – Let’s Bang
2. The Vickers – She’s Lost
3. TV Girl – She Smokes In Bed
4. Gaoler’s Daughter – St Peter
5. Ghost Outfit – Waste
6. Throwing Up – Medicine
7. Shake the Baron – Ghost Hits
8. To Kill A King – Cannibals With Cutlery
9. Shark Week – Baby Maybe
10. Temple Songs – Past Caring
11. MONEY – Hold Me Forever
12. Rose Windows – Heavenly Days
13. TIGERCUB – Little Rope
14. Weird Dreams – Holding Nails

Thoughts & Rhythms – August 9th 2013 by Francesca Baker on Mixcloud

The Vickers – She's Lost

admin — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 14:05:53 +0000

In the run up to their new album, Florence band The Vickers have realised a new 7” single, She’s Lost/All I Need via Cybertree Records/Foolica Records. Laced in hazy debt to the 60s it’s a smoggy and druggy trip from the four piece, lucid psychedelia of the type that isn’t found often enough. Andrea Mastropietro (vocals & guitar), Federico Sereni (bass guitar & vocals), Francesco Marchi (vocals & guitar) and Marco Biagiotti (drums & backing vocals) take us on a musical mashing journey, a myriad of tempos and styles. There’s the throbbing and insistent beats, the squirming and sprawling undulations, the urging to ‘Tell me all your stories, tell me how you feel, this is real, this is real’ in that sort of insistent ‘it is not real’ way, before the maraca beats and shaking drums build up to a crescendo. It manages to be everything to everyone without losing any impetus, excitement, or diminishing the delight of its homespun psychedelic vision.

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