Vintage Crop - The North

Nominative determinism is a good topic to mention if you want to come across like Stephen Fry, it´s that thing where people called Mr Twix tend to end up working in chocolate biscuit factories. But what´s the opposite? Nominative rebellion? I´m asking because of the band, Idles. I was looking at their lockdown output and they are really really striving to defy their nominative destiny. They´ve prepared the release of a new album while splurting even more workload onto youtube in the form of a chat show with edgy visuals (Balley TV) and a sub-Never Mind The Buzzcocks quiz show (Dumb & Drumber). Hardly idleness, is it? Anyway, the new track, A Hymn, is a gripping blast of searing, emotional guitars and caustic, emotional lyrics. The video is neat too.

However, it turns out that today´s subject is not Idles. Although there is some complaining in A Hymn (“I lost ten pounds for the wedding”) true complainers know that a gripe is properly expressed to the sound of scratchy, abrasive guitars like “I don´t wanna make tea at the BBC” or “It was the fault of the government.” For a newer example, let´s take The North by Vintage Crop, who demonstrate that complaining should be done simply; “It´s cold in the north,” they say. This might not seem like the shrewdest observation but they are from Australia, which gives them a sharper appreciation of coldness I suppose. They have been described as Geelong´s finest, which suits them nicely as they sound like a band in a garage in some characterless town, who accidently went and got good. The next part of the story is that they file in and out of a van in Europe, and that´s where they learn about the cold. Their previous single was called Gridlock so it´s possible that this European tour introduced them to traffic jams too, maybe Geelong´s urban planning ensures the residents speedy and efficient movements throughout their warm days. Back to Vintage Crop, I better underline that they are a punky bunch with sufficient melody, plus they are named after a race horse. Finally, I should say that Spotify also offers a lovely rework of The North with an 80´s synth/casio beat vibe. Sadly, they haven´t uploaded this to youtube, unequine lazy sods.

THIS WEEK

Vintage Crop – The North

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mKhvAmWCT4

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LAST WEEK

Soko – Oh, To Be A Rainbow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKAxd5fvBdU

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EXTRAS

Vintage Crop – Gridlock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRpc45VnQUc

Idles – A Hymn