This is a group that claims to have its roots
in a record box from
1968. A claim that I have absolutely no qualms about accepting,
although it's probably not just any old record box. At the front you
will surely find The Rolling Stones 'Their Satanic Majesties Request'
and 'Between The Buttons.' These keeping good company with Pink
Floyd's 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.' Containing what must be
favourites in the form of 'Arnold Layne' and 'See Emily Play.'
Moving through the box we discover 'The Who Sell
Out,' The Electric
Prunes and the classic Swedish artist Tages. An absolute given is The
Doors first 3 albums and 1 or 2 of The Beatles LP's are most certainly
to be found hiding in the midst.
The members of Depressive Art certainly know
these records inside out.
They've taken all these influences and mixed them up, fine tuning and
adjusting until the end result is a sound at once familiar, yet unique
to themselves.
The album, 'Bye Bye, Dear Everything', has 10
tracks that jump out of
the speakers and wrestles you into submission. Definitely an album not
to be missed! The only fault I can find in the record is its length.
It's too short! (But we can look forward to the follow up in 2008.)
Also, this album gives me an important, missing
detail from rock
history. Jim Morrisson did not die in a bath in his Paris apartment,
he only faked. Instead he took himself to Gothenburg and moved into
an
apartment in a derelict building in Haga. What he then did remains a
mystery, but the genes from 'Mr Mojo Rising' are most certainly
mingling with the genes of Depressive Art...