Rock music means very little to me anymore.
Wait, let me back that up: NEW rock music doesn’t matter that much to
me anymore – I just don’t seek it out. Can you blame me? I write about all
sorts of weird outsider crap for Tabs Out (and here) (and TMT) that I can
barely recognize a 4/4 rhythm if it hit me in the forehead.
So why, then, is Zurich Cloud Motors so awesome? Easy: they’re frickin’
noisy, but still noisy hellish rock music.
The Providence, Rhode Island, fearsome foursome(ish) strangle the heck
out of their guitars, the manic strumming and angular melodies overloading the
rhythm until you can’t help but crash around whatever space you’re in like
Zurich Cloud Motors probably crash around the stage at live shows. I was at the
library, so I to clean up a lot of books before I was summarily dismissed from
the premises.
Like Parquet Courts run through “No New York,” Zurich Cloud Motors take
alternate paths to get to exactly where you want them to go, and if they stop,
then I’m having an unshakable nightmare. You get that, right? They detour
through a little more melody by the end of the second EP (there are two EPs
collected here, if you hadn’t figured that out yet), but it’s still a nice
touch. In fact, that lands them more in Parquet Courts’, er, court than
anything. God, “Wide Awake” was so good.
--Ryan
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