SHRIEKBACK The World's Second Best Pop Group With A Bald Singer
“... Shriekback have opted to make a different kind of music—one which exalts human frailty and the harmonious mess of nature over the simplistic reductions of our crude Computers.”—liner notes to Big Night Music. This thing called Shriekback is a strange beast.
SHRIEKBACK The World's Second Best Pop Group With A Bald Singer
Dave Segal
“... Shriekback have opted to make a different kind of music—one which exalts human frailty and the harmonious mess of nature over the simplistic reductions of our crude Computers.”—liner notes to Big Night Music.
This thing called Shriekback is a strange beast. Trying to describe them gives me one hell of a headache. The new Shriekback music (it’s called Big Night Music but it could just as easily be called Small Morning Music) screws with rock critics’ tote jargon. If you wanted to be crass, you could label ’em an intellectual funk band with gospel/cocktail lounge pretensions. Unlike most AngloCaucasians who funk around with black styles of music, Shriekback throw a skewed, light on what, in pedestrian hands, can be a brain-numbing genre. You can attribute Shriekback’s uniqueness (no lie) to keyboardist/singer/lyricist Barry Andrews.