Child to Release Blueside Dec. 2; “Blueside of the Collar” Video Posted
Melbourne heavy blues three-piece Child left little doubt to their boogie allegiance with their 2014 self-titled debut. So much so that respected German purveyor Kozmik Artifactz picked up the record for release early last year. Tracked live in its entirety and showcasing due vibrancy as a result, the follow-up is called Blueside, and it arrives via the same label on Dec. 2. You probably caught wind of the first record, because you’re hip like that, and I’d have sworn I reviewed it at some point but can’t find the link — hey, I’m human; sometimes a cool album falls through the cracks — but Blueside rolls out five new languid, jammy rockers marked out by the vocal performance of guitarist Mathias Northway and the rhythmic fluidity of bassist Danny Smith and drummer Michael Lowe in a manner no less grand than the Nick Keller (see also: Beastwars) cover art would suggest.
Shit is right on, is my point, and whether they’ve gone a-wonderin’ in a song like “It’s Cruel to be Kind” or the 11-minute closer “The Man” or get down on more straightforward vibes with centerpiece “Blue Side of the Collar” — for which you can see a newly-posted video at the bottom of this post — the flow holds up front to back for the 39-minute span. I’ll have a review up in the weeks to come, but preorders are up now through Kozmik Artifactz, and the short version is you might want to get on that.
Dig:
CHILD ‘Blueside’ LP/CD out December 2nd
CHILD is a trio of jam-obsessed first-class musicians, who met in 2012 in the rock underground of Melbourne. Between the three working class Australians Mathias (guitar/vocals), Michael (drums) and Jayden (bass), who can best be described as a blues fanatic with liquid steel as blood, grew as strong a musical band as a group of Musicians can only cultivate and nurture themselves by the unabated urge for intense jam.
It quickly became clear that songs here would not be created simply as architectural objects on the drawing board, but as a result of a deep dialogue between three conspiratorial individuals who have given their instruments speech.
From this dialogue, the self-titled debut resulted in the winter of 2014, which, in addition to the CD, also received a top-notch vinyl copy of the well-known cult label Kozmik Artifactz. On the bandcamp page of the band, this blues-doom hammer has since then entered the hearts of the buyers, which is evidenced by a steadily growing number of supporter reviews.
The enthusiasm for CHILD became so international in a short time that the band escaped the red continent in 2014 and 2015 and also crashed European clubs and festivals with their brutal sound. In these few but very busy years, CHILD have already contested 145 shows, among others. Also a tour of Indonesia. There they appeared in some places as the first internationally active band at all, which led to partly adventurous events.
In April 2017 it will be time again, and this time especially the German-speaking area will pay a lot of attention.
The “Blueside”
In the spring of 2016 CHILD’s dialogue was resumed, but with a new bassist, Danny Smith, also recruited from the circle of friends.
On the self-imposed goal of the band, nothing had changed: the magical intensity of the CHILD-Liveshows was to be transferred intimally and unbuilt to the new recordings, and a sluggish, sonorous power that made the good old Doom Metal pale was a perfect protoplasm, which Mathias was able to inoculate many very lively blues cells with his singing and guitar playing after black swamp blues…
The two-month recording process, a liverecording with just enough space for bluestypic improvisations, resulted in a refreshing contrast to the currently booming heavy blues rock, because, irrishingly, “Blueside” creates a very primordial blues full of expressive power even more strongly in the foreground and still to speak also of true doomfans, which the underlying cause of all instruments plays directly into the entrails.
Available as CD & limited vinyl
VINYL FACTZ
– Plated & pressed on high performance vinyl at Pallas/Germany
– limited 180g vinyl
– 166x marbled (exclusive mailorder edition)
– blue & black editions
– 300gsm gatefold cover
– special vinyl mastering
TRACKS
1. Nailed to the Ceiling
2. It’s Cruel to be Kind
3. Blue Side of the Collar
4. Dirty Woman
5. The Man
Child is:
Mathias Northway – Guitars, Vocals
Michael Lowe – Drums, Percussion
Danny Smith – Bass Guitar
Recorded live at Iridium Audio and TVOG by Dav Byrne
Mixed and mastered by Dav Byrne
Produced by CHILD and Dav Byrne
All songs written by CHILD
Original oil painting by Nick Keller
Photography by Stephen Boxshall
Backing vocals by Harmony Byrne and Neil Wilkinson
Organs by Joe Cope
Layout by James Tom
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I love these guys but that press release is hysterical. I never considered Child to be ‘brutal.’ lol