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| Nme |
 The Drums have announced that they will be releasing their second album 'Portamento' on September 12. The New York band, who are now made up of singer Jonathan Pierce, keyboardist Jacob Graham and drummer Conor Hanwick, plus two live members, will precede the album with a single 'Money', which is released on September 5. You can hear the track by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking. The tracklisting for 'Portamento' - the artwork of which is pictured above - is as follows: 'Book Of Revelation' 'Days' 'What You Were' 'Money' 'Hard To Love' 'I Don’t Know How To Love' 'Searching For Heaven' 'Please Don’t Leave' 'If He Likes It Let Him Do It' 'I Need A Doctor' 'In The Cold' 'How It Ended'...full text |
| Prettymuchamazing |
| Brooklyn indie poppers The Drums impressed a wave of fans with their debut record, last year’s eponymous LP, and they’re already returning this fall with a brand new LP called Portamento. The band have just released the album’s first single, the oh-so-Smiths “Money”, and it follows in the same aesthetic of their debut: jangling, upbeat guitar pop, ironically reminiscent of 80s British indie pop. It is most likely to inspire dancing, bopping your head vivaciously back and forth, and is also probably one of the catchiest songs they’ve ever put out, especially with a chorus that we can all relate to: “I want to buy you something, but I don’t have any money, I don’t have any money.”...full text |
| Bbc |
| The Drums have got simplicity down to a fine art. When vocalist Jonathan Pierce and guitarist Jacob Graham first formed a band, they named it Goat Explosion. After temporarily going separate ways – Pierce fronted Elkland and Graham formed Horse Shoes – their 2006 reunion dropped the animal imagery for a name so effortlessly and obviously brilliant that you couldn’t believe nobody had beaten them to it. Suitably attired, The Drums’ newly minted blend of surf-rock and indie pop (most obviously Mancunian at heart, from The Smiths to Peter Hook basslines, with a dash of Orange Juice) was as canny as it was minimal and uncomplicated. Song titles from their self-titled debut, from Let’s Go Surfing to Best Friends, were never likely to mask socio-political treatises. As The Vaccines know, sometimes route one is the only way to go. The use of the word Portamento – the musical term for "a gradual slide from one note to another", and used here to denote change – threatens to derail this base formula. But don’t worry. The change in question, namely last year’s departure of co-guitarist Adam Kessler, has created an even more stripped-out sound, even when electronics are sometimes thrown into the mix. And titles such as Days, Money and In the Cold reveal The Drums are still keeping it simple. "Devastated" by Kessler’s decision, the remaining trio were clearly keen to move on, given Portamento arrives just 14 months after their debut. And it does sound rushed. Portamento is simplicity redux, to the point of composing songs that sound too alike, and too like the last album. The lyrics to Money could easily be sung over the following Hard to Love. Is the backdrop to I Don’t Know How to Love much different to, say, Let’s Go Surfing? True, the difference between The Beach Boys’ first two albums is roughly the same. ‘Progress’ is perhaps overrated. And a few plays in, I Don’t Know How to Love’s nimble, hypnotic and archly simple beauty digs in....full text |
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