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Githead - Profile

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Artist: Githead
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-07-19
Music Label: Swim
Soundtracks:

Alpha
My LCA (Little Box Of Magic)
Cosmology For Beginners
Antiphon
They Are
Option Paralysis
Wallpaper
Raining Down
Pylons

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Music Review: Cool album
Rating: 5 Stars

Githead
Profile
Swim~

Githead is a new band that started a few years ago. Colin Newman spent ten years doing records on his Swim~ label. These were mostly techno and dance records that included many diverse influences: Guitars and techno, drum and bass. The past two years we saw the return of Wire, which Newman was the singer. The success of the new Wire material was a shock. That took up some time. In the parallel world of Swim~ things had been quiet. To celebrate the tenth year anniversary of Swim~ a new band was formed. The members of Githead are some of the people who contributed the most to Swim~ like Newman, and Malka Spigel and Robin Rimbaud. Of course Githead is a separate new thing. The music is mostly like pan-euro rock, which is reminiscent of Minimal Compact and Newman's solo records of the late 1980s. A weird quality of all the vocals is that they are all spoken, and not so much sung. This works best in songs like "Cosmology for Beginners." It almost has a funky rap vibe. All the songs are pretty good. This record is more listenable that some of the other art rock records on Swim~. This is levelheaded music. Newman and company has succeeded again.

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Japanese pressing! The appearance of Githead and the release of their debut EP Headgit in 2004 surprised many, not only with the unlikely front line of Wire's Colin Newman (Gtr., Vox), Minimal Compact's Malka Spigel (Bass, Vox) & Scanner's Robin Rimbaud (Gtr.) but also with the cyclic, hypnotic funkiness not to mention the avant-pop sensibility the outfit produces. ''Unusually accessible, even funky''...wrote Andy Gill in the Independent. ''When they're good, they're astonishingly good, both angular & polished'' wrote James Snodgrass in the NME ''Cult classic of tomorrow'' wrote Q Magazine Newman's on-the-side vitality hasn't dimmed a bit wrote Joe Tangari in Pitchfork Media. Their debut album Profile takes the story and sound-scape of Githead wider & deeper. With the addition of Max Franken (also of Minimal Compact) on drums the band has become a small mobile unit capable of delivering - emotional power, as on the opener 'Alpha' and the epic 'Raining Down'. Swim. 2005.

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