Thread Pulls Video + Interview
My favourite track from New thoughts , Thread Pulls' excellent debut album from last year, gets the Jacques Cousteau treatment. Here's what I thought about the album when it came out in September 2010. Thread Pulls - New thoughts (Osaka Records) The last thing I see myself as is a cheerleader for the "Irish music industry" (TM). However, this feels like an important Irish rock album at the beginning of a new decade. The fact that this Dublin band consists of nothing but a bass player and a drummer (with a few electronics worked in) compounds the feeling of a new template. Thread Pulls have taken out cymbals, synths and guitars, all the better to highlight the power of drum and bass. Why is this album important? Because it's full of catchy tunes with a powerful punch that you can dance to (my own favourite, and one of the songs of the year, is Weight , with its floppily insistent post punk rhythm interspersed with drum flurries and a sweetly melodic, almost ...