Is This Anything?
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Transistors
Is This Anything?
[ Arch Hill Records / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 2 August 2013
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Rangiora's finest, The Transistors, blast through 34 minutes of punk-inflected power pop.
Is This Anything? was recorded in the Canterbury music hotbed of Sefton, where the band camped out for a week in a cottage on a farm to track the album. The mighty Bob Frisbee manned the recording controls, and overdubs were added later at his studio in Auckland. The band have conveniently provided a Sefton recording plan to highlight the high tech approach to capturing their buzzy sound.
For those new to the band, the Transistors are a three piece power pop outfit made up of James Harding on guitar and vocals, Colin Roxburgh on bass and vocals, and Olly Crawford-Ellis on drums and vocals. They met on the first day of high school and picked up instruments soon after.
In 2012 the Transistors toured the USA, playing 27 shows in 30 days and traveling 12,000 miles across 33 states. This was with Guitar Wolf. Known for their party antics, Guitar Wolf also offered the Transistors a tour of their home country of Japan. But this was only on the condition that the Transistors "must harden liver first".
Transistors have also traveled extensively in their homeland, playing and touring with the likes of Buzzcocks, Black Lips, Jeff the Brotherhood, The Datsuns, The Dirtbombs, Crocodiles, Dum Dum Girls, Mint Chicks, Pierced Arrows, BRMC, Foo Fighters, St Jeromes Laneway Festival and more.
NZ Herald review:
It's taken the Transistors four years to produce a follow-up to their debut Shortwave. What the North Canterbury band have created here is a raw, yet tight and focused "punk de force". Whatever angle you look at Is This Anything?, it is obvious the Transistors wear their influences on their sleeves. Method Actor has the band's trademark punk sound, with hints of alt-rock created by putting the backing vocals through a voice morpher.Nervous Heart, a jumpy pop-punk delight, could have fitted comfortably on a Ramones album with its Joey-like vocals. The energetic Your Life Could Be So Easy sounds much like the early Clean, with happy keyboard parts and Green Day-like melodic bass solo. Professional and I'm Your Brat have a Clash feel, with thick London vocals, and the solos of Husker Du's Bob Mould have rubbed off on Bright & Early and This Is Not An Exit with fuzz-toned guitar riffs. Is This Anything? is a big leap from the Transistors' previous effort, while keeping true to their punk rock roots.
4 / 5 New Zealand Herald.
Tracks:
1. Method Altar
2. Nervous Heart
3. Abandoned
4. Professional
5. Ex-Communicator
6. Your Life Could Be So Easy
7. Look at me Now
8. Knee Jerk Jerk
9. Thru With Complaining
10. Stuck In The Mud
11. Im Your Brat, Im The Rat
12. Bright & Early
13. This Is Not An Exit
14. Dirty Diver
