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Chavez
Ride The Fader
(Matador, 1996)
Post-hardcore masterpiece by today’s go-to guitarist, Matt Sweeney…
“Contains Matt Sweeney” is still a hallmark of quality on America’s alternative rock scene, his aptly savage guitar work on 2005’s Superwolf record revitalising the Bonnie “Prince” Billy franchise and, most recently, you may have heard him all over Neil Diamond’s Home Before Dark. Back in “the day”, however, he was helping define “math rock” with Chavez, though truthfully it was always an unhelpful tag; certainly, there’s nothing autistic or overly-cerebral about Ride The Fader, the band’s swansong/apotheosis. As passionate as it is rump-batteringly noisy, putting the lie to the band’s hardcore roots (various members of Live Skull, Bullet Lavolta and Wider) with shiny hooks (several per song, piling on the VFM) and wistful lyricism (Unreal Is Here is pure, contagious wonder), it’s human to the core, with a wide-eyed ingenuousness typified by the lyric “There is nothing to not be amazed at”. Yet there’s no denying the spiralling geometries of Sweeney and Clay Tarver’s gimlet guitars and brainy, disorientating dynamics, and one imagines them in gingham rather than leather. A British parallel might have been a geekier Swervedriver (similarly orchestral in their manipulations of distortion), though Ride The Fader could in truth have emerged from nowhere other than New York. Manna for fans of hard sounds, and guitars for the sake of guitars.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 21/08/2008
Further Listening
Chavez – Gone Glimmering (Matador, 1995)
Helmet – Meantime (Interscope, 1992)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Matt Sweeney – Superwolf (Domino, 2005)
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Chavez_1.. Great idea :)
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