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Review: 'Onceweresixty'
'Loco Sunset Boulevard/ Ghetto Noise Blast Machine'   

-  Label: 'Ugly Dog Records/Beautiful Losers/Pretty OK'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '22.3.24.'

Our Rating:
Onceweresixty is the new band formed by the original members of MR60 that allows Marco Lorenzoni and Luca Sella to be joined by Enrico Grando in recording these two interlocked Eps as one album, in a Villa owned by the Armenian church situated between Venice and the Alps.

Loco Sunset Boulevard opens with Don't Get Stuck as sparse percussion with minimal guitar urge us not to get stuck in a rut.
Keep Running is played at a sedate pace that is more for wandering that running at, it does slowly pick up the pace to an almost jog.

As they claim repeatedly, I Kept running, but it's not clear if it was towards or away from something.

Weird Times is of course a song for the last few years that has a claustrophobic feel to the vocals, as the acoustic guitars chime in and out of time to the shuffling slow beat.

Back In The Days before they were all heartbroken, they didn't need songs like this to try to lift there spirits, this wistful indie longing won't leave them.

Ghetto Noise Blast Machine opens with Pills, not the Bo Diddley classic, but a psych rock blast with swirling sounds drawing us into a world of insistent drumbeats, celebrating all the disco biscuits you necked in the 90's, will she fall into a K-hole or lose the plot on a never-ending E-trip.

Into Town sounds like a cautious trip into the local big town for some adventures that you're not sure if your up for or not, perhaps you've got a little paranoid due to all the Pills you necked during the last song.

Consequence Of Capitalism is of course about bands like this struggling to make anything from the music they make, having to work three jobs to just get by, not that the lyrics are about that. As the hazy low-fi backing does its best to stick it to the corporate bankers.

The album/ double EP closes with All That Glitter that builds in unconventional ways, the glitter is on the floor, they hope some tremulous drumming and brass can make it shake and shimmy cheering up the grimy surroundings.

Find out more at https://uglydog.bandcamp.com/album/loco-sunset-boulevard-ghetto-blast-noise-machine https://linktr.ee/x60 https://www.facebook.com/onceweresixty/





  author: simonovitch

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