The
Embrooks first recordings in over 10 years! Out now on State Records!
It may be over a decade
since The Embrooks committed any music to ½-inch tape but this brand
new 7” single shows they can still come up with the goods. They've
kept their hand in during the intervening years with drummer Lois
bashing the skins for garage-y pub-rockers Thee Jezebels, and bassist
Mole playing for numerous acts as well as setting up State Records
and Sandgate Studios, a facility that ranks alongside the
legendary Toe Rag for capturing an authentically vintage sound.
Where The Embrooks are
concerned this sound is all about that mid-'60s “pop goes weird”
moment, crucially pre-concept album, when 7” singles ruled. It's
beat-driven art-rock still with still enough “pop” in it to care
about melody and hooks. 'Nightmare' is the darker side of this single
with pilled-up guitar motifs and scattershot drums. It owes much to
The Creation, The Who and The Yardbirds et al whereas the flip
'Helen' shows the band's lighter, poppier side, albeit with a guitar
sound nasty enough for Dave Davies. A cracking record, get it while
it's hot!
Limited to 500 copies
in front-laminated flipback sleeve.
The Embrooks are -
Mole—bass guitar,
vocals
Alessandro
Cozzi-Lepri—guitar, vocals
Lois Tozer—drums
