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| best of the out of town brigade, narcotic drone-rock from Brother Francisco - one of the unexpected treats of Truck weekend Oxford’s Nightshift Magazine They are marvellous, whipping up woozy, buzzing, falling sideways songs that panfry the more sunstruck elements of Dinosaur Jnr and The Meat Puppets (wiggy sounds of deserts full of weirdly shaped cacti), then pour in lashings of motorik drone straight from the jar labelled 'Jenny Ondioline'. www.kittenpainting.co.uk One of the great things about Truck is the chance of crossing paths with a band who stop you in your tracks and draw you in. Brother Francisco sound like all the best bits of Sonic Youth mixed with Spiritualized, Spirea X, and more recently East Anglian sonic drivers Sennen. Add a sprinkling of Sebadoh and Pavement and you have a perfectly formed lesson in nineties indie mayhem played by three serious young men with a penchant for dynamics, songs and restrained power. Maybe it's just my warm memories of teenage years growing up with this sort of music that makes me instantly swoon for them, but with this sort of superior sonic onslaught they deserve greater acceptance and appreciation. www.oxfordbands.com Brother Francisco - creating a heavy duty narcotic drone rock racket, all flanged guitars and piercing synth hums ... the minimalist lyrics take on an almost mantra like feel and you feel if they can really let loose with the drones they could consume the world. Oxford’s Nightshift Magazine It's 16.30, and again I go back to my favourite stage this year, "The Lounge Stage". There I see an English band called "Brother Francisco", an amazing trio that I didn't know, it is a great suprise. It is a mix of Indierock from the 90s with stimulant British Pop. It is a "Sweet & Sour" music of great quality. Brother Francisco are one of those amazing bands that you can discover when you go to these type of musical events in the UK... one of those bands that are unknown before the concert but whose name ends up written down in your notebook at the end... Cielo Liquido (Translation: A. Guadarrama) This band were the highlight of the gig, at least in this writer's opinion. Catchy, experimental and quirky, it was little surprise to learn that Brother Francisco played at Oxfordshire's Truck Festival not so long ago. It was at about this moment in time that I got chatting to the bloke stood next to me. Turns out he was new to the area, and had been walking past the Wheatsheaf when he heard the music and decided he'd pay the entrance fee to get a bit closer to the action. A friendly bloke, I can't help but feel he got his money's worth after seeing Brother Francisco's impressive performance. |
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