Noise vs. Tune (another record review for UP)

Here's the latest review for Austin's Urban Pollution, this time for a band I'd never heard of before, Austin locals The Casting Couch. As usual, I took the opportunity for a little theoretical mud-slinging, advising the band -- who sound like a more conventional Architecture in Helsinki combined with common twee pop tropes and polite "everyone plays together!" arrangements -- to explore a collaboration with another female-led combo, notorious Kentucky noise improvisers the Magik Markers. See this video of the Markers wreaking havoc at a show in Massachusetts, where lead "singer" Elisa picks fights with random strangers, and oceans of feedback get pulled up from beneath the rubble of smashed bad cymbals.

ADDENDA: You can check out some songs by The Casting Couch here.