Saturday, 22 September 2012

Music: Grinderman 2 RMX

Grinderman 2 RMX


Grinderman. Are they cool? Very. Are they back? Probably not, but here’s hoping.  
Their first album, the self-titled, Grinderman released in 2007 introduced us to a classic Cave poetic style of alternative rock. Three years later we saw the release of Grinderman 2, which was suitably and fantastically as weird and wonderful. 
I keep hanging around your kitchenette
And I’m gonna get a pot to cook you in
I stick my fingers in your biscuit jar
And crush all your gingerbread men
Kitchenette, Grinderman
Now, two years after Grinderman 2, and one year after the band’s onstage announcement that they were ‘over’, Grinderman 2 RMX appears. 
I wouldn’t usually find a remix album something to be that excited about, as I usually stay as far from possible from remixes of songs that I like as possible, but this is different. The remixes by outfits such as A Place to Bury Strangers and UNKLE really are truly fantastic, bringing a new angle to the songs of Grinderman 2, but still keeping it Cave.
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It’s good. Very good.
Listen to the album on Spotify here.
Grinderman/U.N.K.L.E - Hyper Worm Tamer on Youtube.

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