New stuff coming from THE ARROGANTS via Dirty Water:
From Lille in France come the new wave of garage punks. Grand old men of their local scene at only 18, The Arrogants' new 4-track EP is going to blow you away. And they have a lot more where this came from.
In the year 2014 you might expect young men at the tender age of 18
to be much like most other teenagers of their generation – to be more
interested in video games and the hipster bands namechecked by
Pitchfork and so on. But these particular young men have happily
spent their teens investigating classic twentieth-century music: blues
and rock’n’roll and especially the garage-rock and rhythm’n’blues
from the sixties. And they decided they wanted guitars in their hands
rather than consoles.
The Arrogants have delved into the sounds of mod, garage rock,
psychedelia, and blues, first as a 14-year-old duo, then as a 15-year old
trio ... and now with an organist, as a quartet, they are ready to
be heard by the wider world. Whilst digging the sounds of the past,
they have successfully developed their own repertoire, writing their
own songs and gaining recognition in their home town by playing as
support to their heroes The Pretty Things and appearing at the Lille
Vintage Weekend in front of 15,000 strong crowd.
Produced by French Londoner Healer Selecta Londoner (aka Yvan
Serrano) and mastered by Pete Maher (who has worked for U2, The
Killers, Rolling Stones, and Jack White, amongst other famous
names), these tracks are intended to introduce the band to a wider
audience prior to them putting together a full album. And having been
touring extensively throughout the second half of last year and with a
full schedule already lined up for this year they have both the songs
and the chops.
Serrano remembers seeing the sixteen-year-old Arrogants on stage
for the first time, “It was a strange feeling, as though I was watching
an original garage band. Their garage sound is pure, minimal and
wild. To make true sixties garage, it should have this youthful energy
and not over-do the technical ability to make for a real musical
experience.”
Check out the groove @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw1sDyB-5MY & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eciEhr7RqI The Arrogants will be a spotlight in the next Sound out in November @ http://undergroundrecords.org/sound
From Lille in France come the new wave of garage punks. Grand old men of their local scene at only 18, The Arrogants' new 4-track EP is going to blow you away. And they have a lot more where this came from.
In the year 2014 you might expect young men at the tender age of 18
to be much like most other teenagers of their generation – to be more
interested in video games and the hipster bands namechecked by
Pitchfork and so on. But these particular young men have happily
spent their teens investigating classic twentieth-century music: blues
and rock’n’roll and especially the garage-rock and rhythm’n’blues
from the sixties. And they decided they wanted guitars in their hands
rather than consoles.
The Arrogants have delved into the sounds of mod, garage rock,
psychedelia, and blues, first as a 14-year-old duo, then as a 15-year old
trio ... and now with an organist, as a quartet, they are ready to
be heard by the wider world. Whilst digging the sounds of the past,
they have successfully developed their own repertoire, writing their
own songs and gaining recognition in their home town by playing as
support to their heroes The Pretty Things and appearing at the Lille
Vintage Weekend in front of 15,000 strong crowd.
Produced by French Londoner Healer Selecta Londoner (aka Yvan
Serrano) and mastered by Pete Maher (who has worked for U2, The
Killers, Rolling Stones, and Jack White, amongst other famous
names), these tracks are intended to introduce the band to a wider
audience prior to them putting together a full album. And having been
touring extensively throughout the second half of last year and with a
full schedule already lined up for this year they have both the songs
and the chops.
Serrano remembers seeing the sixteen-year-old Arrogants on stage
for the first time, “It was a strange feeling, as though I was watching
an original garage band. Their garage sound is pure, minimal and
wild. To make true sixties garage, it should have this youthful energy
and not over-do the technical ability to make for a real musical
experience.”
Check out the groove @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw1sDyB-5MY & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eciEhr7RqI The Arrogants will be a spotlight in the next Sound out in November @ http://undergroundrecords.org/sound