Victory and Associates : "These Things Are Facts" Lp/Cd

<a href="http://victoryandassociates.bandcamp.com/album/these-things-are-facts">These Things Are Facts by Victory and Associates</a> “Any band claiming Buzzcocks, Cheap Trick, Devo as influences are probably going to be good - and not copyists, given those bands’ idiosyncratic streaks. And Oakland’s V&A do indeed have something going on...Funny, they don’t sound late ’70s at all; they’re more like a flying, harsh, heavy-riffing ‘90s alt-rock indie band, blowing chucks of righteous noise free of grunge and metal but plenty heavy just the same. It’s a big molten ruckus offset by guitarist/frontman Conan Neutron’s cleaner, precisely sung, classic rock melodies than this sort of din usually confers. They’re gnarly, but like with Grant Hart singing. Punkish music that isn’t easily pigeonholed sometimes struggles for a