Giddy Motors

Featuring a revised line-up comprising Gaverick de Vis (guitar/vocals), Manu Ros (drums), and Justin Stone (bass), 21st August sees Giddy Motors follow up their 2002 FatCat debut, ‘Make It Pop’, with their long-awaited second LP, ‘Do Easy’. Deftly arranged and brutal as ever, ‘Do Easy’ serves up another slice of urgent, ragged, off-kilter rock and roll that defies easy categorisation, debasing and reconstructing influences in a context of their own.

‘Do Easy’ grabs you by the throat and doesn't stop shaking until it's good and ready. Honing half their album on their punishing US tour, the remaining tracks were completed by 2005, recorded in London over 4 weekends for just £900, by 21 year old Tobias Warwick-Jones, in a Greenwich Light-Industrial Unit. Giddy Motors have thrown a fit of powerful, violent music, which nevertheless retains the complexity and artistry of their debut. It's hard to believe that such a powerful sounding record has come out of such limited resources. ‘Do Easy’ sounds like a band hitting their collective stride.

Reticent to debate the subject matter of individual songs, or who or what exactly inspires the band, Gaverick states their overridding influences as ‘Hate. Influenced by hate. Hatred of each other and ourselves. Which in turn is underpinned, or undermined by an immovable bent for nonsense, raccoons and 4711’. Though undoubtedly toungue in cheek, it’s a statement perhaps redolent of their music as a whole. Errant, intense, and frequently shot through with a palpable sense of black or surreal humour, ‘Do Easy’ is a typically idiosyncratic blast of deranged vitriol.

Formed in South London in 1999, Giddy Motors originally set out to combine the aesthetics of jazz and US alt-punk, and deliver it with a fresh slant. Jagged chord patterns are pinned down by a reflexive, relentless rhythm section, explosive songs are liable to suddenly flip back on themselves, or fly off at unexpected angles. Chaotic, energetic and aggressive, perhaps more than anything, Giddy Motors sound like a band locked into their own thing, intensely focused and commited to exploring their own wayward logic.

Gaverick De Vis is also set to emerge with a new and different beast straining at the leash in the not too distant future – Watch this space.

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