Float Riverer hail from Manchester and although they may appear shy in this photo this duo’s self-styled gnarly, hypnotic, catchy-as-a-cold garage punk is exactly what you need to ward off the winter willies. The ever magical Monarch Bar at Kotti proving yet again that an awesome band playing in the corner of a smoky bar make for the best shows.
An apt quote from Crushing Death & Grief:
they cook up some kind of Sebadoh/The Clean/Scout Niblett/Sleater-Kinney/The Fall/Thee Oh Sees bouillabaisse, heavy on the pepper. By the time of this gig they’ll have already toured Europe twice, put out an eponymous LP and got Everett True all excited too.
Everett True is a legendary British music journalist who now resides in Brisbane, has written for NME and Melody Maker among many other publications and who apparently introduced Kurt Cobain to Courtney Love…and that’s the short version of his life. This is what he has to say about Float Riverer:
My only complaint about The White Stripes was that the band weren’t composed of two Meg Whites. My one complaint with Float Riverer is that they haven’t played Australia yet. Is that a Scout Niblett influence I detect? Oh, I do hope so. Great fucking guitar line, one riff and one riff only is easily enough to achieve whatever it is they’re achieving. Consistency. Repetition. Hypnotism. Dance-trance. Spacemen 3 as heard through a very narrow filter indeed. They just get straight down to it, 10 seconds in and you could be 10 hours in. I’d like to hear that, actually: Float Riverer playing the same riff for 10 hours straight, the vocals sometimes dropping out. (Songs of course actually last only a few too-brief minutes.) Ain’t their fault they ain’t played in Brisbane, leastways. Only formed in Manchester end of last year, and every song sounds roughly, brutally, gloriously the same. Fucking great stuff.“
So, there you have it from the experts, phew, they make my life easier sometimes.
It’s intense stuff as you will found out in roughly twelve seconds:
