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Issue
#108
Aug. ‘08
Disclaimer: This
CD arrived as a submittal complete with IndepenDisc logo on the label
and in
the inside booklet, plus a personal mention in the Thanks
you’s. Unbeknownst to
us, Ron Sutfin is a huge IndepenDisc fan ;-) . Talk about pressure on
an
audition… On both parties...
“Hey
Man, who says a leopard can’t change his
spots / Appearances deceive / Change is internal baby / It’s
what’s inside that
counts.”
The Peacock
Flounders are balls to the
wall rock of the
’78-‘82-‘84 Punk/New Wave era. They are
so in-your-face you can’t help but love
their mature, polished treatment of the punk/new wave movement/genre,
especially that of the New Haven, CT scene, which has seen a huge swell
of its
notable reunions – Seems as though 30 years later, the
mid-late ‘naught decade
is not only representing that cultural upheaval on the major circuits,
but also
on the indie/underground/local circuits as well: long is the list of
scenes
stretching across the country where that era’s pioneers are
once again rising
to lead another wave into the next decade.
The Peacock
Flounders emerge as a new band
in today’s landscape,
made up of veterans from New Haven, CT’s
legendary Ron’s Place circa ’78. With Kerry
Miller & Ron
Sutfin, formerly 2/3rds
of Valley of Kings (and many, many,
many various notable others),
sharing vocals and trading instruments, we are treated to a large
encompassing
view of the way music was presented in the indie scene of the late
70’s. Attitude
drips out of every song in ways in which Joy Division, The Smiths, Echo
&
The Bunnymen, The Ramones, The Dead Boys, and countless others (Pick up
The
Trouser Press Guide To New Wave Records [pub.1983], and you could
easily throw
the whole book in this sentence of comparisons) drenched your senses.
In the late 70s
these were the groundbreaking young upstart kids who loved music so
much that 30
years later they are forming bands like The Peacock
Flounders that rise up like a
Punk/New Wave Phoenix
and show that the love and compassion, for not only the music, but also
for the
culture of the generation, beckons and calls. This is a needed response
to the
reprocessed corporate money machine that has its crosshairs trained on
the same
demographic that broke the Beatles and more since the
mid-60’s, only now with
lesser quality than ever. Tweennyboppers are not new; they’ve
just been dumbed
down by a society which we have reluctantly become a part of. But back
when,
the tweenyboppers knew enough to understand that indie bands at the
local level
could, in music, define the passion of a generation even better than
what the
labels presented (See: Rhino’s collections like Nuggets
& DIY as reference). Hello
Beautiful is a testament
to that and confirms IndepenDisc’s mission statement (which
exonerates the
opening disclaimer).
Ranging from Hit
single material (I
Forget, In The Inside, Oh So Easy
[dig the guitar work that closes out this one] and Still
Be Mine) blended (and
I mean blended on Chop & Grind) with such balls to the wall
classics as Rage,
Ride, and Sonic
Believer, The
Peacock Flounders pay homage to the
Dead Boys via every
three cord fuzztone ever launched off the vinyl of the day, played only
as
seasoned veterans can play it. They have taken the entirety of the
genre to the
next logical advanced level. Welcome back music that was born sloppy
but has
now refined that sloppiness into pure genius – The
Peacock Flounders may have just broke
Punk, again, 30 years
later. Music with attitude this ferocious is too good to turn away
from, again.
The Peacock Flounders
- Hello Beautiful
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