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Cripples

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Keenly aware that new wave has its roots in ?60s garage rock, the Cripples fuse proto-punk rawness with synthesized noise. Formed by Greg Heino (vocals, guitar, synthesizer) and Ross Marshall (synthesizer, vocals) in a high school basement in the mid-?90s. Nearly a decade before resurrecting new wave sounds would be considered cool in the indie-rock world and commercial in the eyes of A&R suits, the Cripples were outcasts, gigging at small Seattle punk clubs in 1996 even though they were clearly not punk rock. Originally relying on samples, the group added drummer {$B...[more]

 

 

You know all those emotional cripples you've tried to ignore? Yeah, you know, people so broken you don't even want to look? This band knows them all too well. From Seattle, WA, THE CRIPPLES open up every single sore, every ugliness, take modern life and cast it into synthesized garage punk. Call it a Neuromancer garage aesthetic. This record's got REAL catchy songs and a stiletto-spiked garage attitude. They've got electronic synth sounds that totally annihilate the stock presets that whimper on every other   [ read more ]

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Second full-length on Dirtnap from Seattle's The Cripples, Culture builds on the Cripples trademark fuzzy analog bleeps and garage rock beats. This time they throw in a mix of Fall-ish guitar post punk, geeky Wire-influenced garage, all thrown into their Devo/ Add N to (X) new wave trash compactor. The Cripples have been around for almost 10 years at this point ? if you live in the Northwest, you have probably seen them playing with bands like The Briefs, The Epoxies, The Spits, or The A Frames.

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