The Blood Arm, Lie Lover Lie

the blood arm has got a five star review in the guardian and i'm think it could be possibly the best album this month.



The Blood Arm, Lie Lover Lie

(City Rockers)

Leonie Cooper
Friday September 22, 2006
The Guardian

Despite having a band name that sounds like it belongs to the newest eyeliner-smudged goth kids on the block, The Blood Arm are just having fun with their allusions to grave robbing and in dressing like Russell Brand's depressive little brother. You don't become one of Franz Ferdinand's favourite groups by sitting around strumming heartfelt melodies - you do it by dishing out stomping LA blues. With Dyan Valdes' relentless juggernaut piano and Nathaniel Fregoso's animated vocals on tracks such as the brilliantly fidgety Mass Murder, theirs is a simultaneously sophisticated and rough-around-the-edges nod to the Fall that also has more than a little in common with electro-soul peddlers the Gossip. Rock'n'roll cliches are turned on their head: Stay Put!'s glam rattle makes excellent use of handclaps, while Suspicious Character's tongue-in-cheek lascivious lyrics are more amusing than seedy. An alternative dancefloor gem.



I think lokking at how well Franz Ferdinand's last singles did, think these might eclipse them very easily.