If not for Shaw’s signature shouts and guttural grunts, “Sid Visions” wouldn’t feel out of place on a Thee Oh Sees record. Collaborator Ty Segall’s influence is felt throughout, particularly on tracks like “Catholic Entries,” a dark, echoing hallway of dissonant sounds and buried vocals. Distant and mysterious, Shaw never breaks character while narrating the album’s twisted journey.įaster, grittier cuts like “Ties You Up” seem most like the Ex-Cult of yore, but most of Midnight Passenger sees the band taking longer strides. “I’m a voice from the sewer/ I’m the suicide cruiser,” he snarls along the album’s title track, adopting a persona that’s not quite a villain, but most definitely no hero. Midnight Passenger opens with the feral scratch of “Shattered Circle,” a trashy garage banger that introduces Ex-Cult’s new, slightly more polished approach: guitars zoom around at twice their normal speed, bass lines are firmly grounded with newly added weight, and singer Chris Shaw’s caustic, barely intelligible vocals are more aggressive than ever. While perhaps less extreme and immediate than Ex-Cult, this latest release is far more adventurous and expansive it just requires a bit more patience. Two years later, the band’s next recorded outing is Midnight Passenger, and it’s a durable follow-up.
With commentary on topics like youth, opportunity, and anxiety, each track was a worthy single in itself. Luckily, this wasn’t the case with Ex-Cult’s 2012 self-titled debut, a thoroughly underrated collection of tight, trashing punk songs. It’s often difficult for bands that play with such intensity to transfer this same energy to the studio.
Delivering searing, hardcore influenced post-punk in a style that’s both volatile and fun, Ex-Cult have carved a niche for themselves when it comes to unruly, totally riveting live shows. At this year’s SXSW, the Memphis five-piece decimated east Austin venue Hotel Vegas, transforming a divey backroom bar into a bonafide sinkhole of sweaty, mosh pit mayhem. Influences such as Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and Nina Simone can be heard as well traditional blues, without forgetting Austin’s roots in a lively Manchester music scene.Few bands can burn through a crowd quite like Ex-Cult. Soulful harmonies help draw pictures filled with social criticism and ironic story telling. The band’s mix of blues, folk, classical and jazz influences create a unique atmosphere through rough but sensitive vocal performance.
– puls (Bayrischer Rundfunk) – In April 2017 the band released their debut EP, Season of Love You are not able to oppose the magic that lies in the music of Matthew Matilda – they put the world to slow motion and transcendence
Rothmoser previously studied jazz drumming at Munich Academy of Music and is a founding member the electronic band Chinese Silk and Video Tape. Pfeiffer was previously a classical music student and cellist in various projects in Munich. Prior to forming the band, Austin performed solo as a Singer-Songwriter around the Greater Manchester area and was the frontman of Mossley band The Fayre. They consist of Singer-Songwriter Matthew Austin from Manchester, UK, Cellistin Matilda Pfeiffer from Munich, Germany and drummer Johannes Rothmoser from Munich, Germany. Matthew Matilda are an English/German indie folk, rock band formed in Munich, Germany.
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