Daydreaming Blog - Interceptors
By Leonardo (Translated by Google)

It's cold here in Rio now. An unusual cold even for the city, always so warm. And it seems appropriate that the soundtrack to the thermal sensation is the first full length album of the band (a couple actually) Screen Vinyl Image, called "Interceptors", launched this year.

The disc was recorded in their own apartment, mixing guitars, textures created by old analog synthesizers, samplers and drum machines. Besides the obvious influence of the shoegaze sound (typical of the former group of which both were part of the Alcian Blue) on the work, the band returned to the daydreaming that even groups of old hip-hop like Public Enemy, Erik B and Rakim and Run DMC served as inspiration.

The opening instrumental impose the first impressions about the work, that show is present throughout the hearing: fear, tension, darkness. As the title suggests one of the tracks ( "Lost In Repeat"), the band seems to want to make their listeners get lost in the cloud of guitars, distortion and beats, and distant vocals that permeate "Interceptors."

Over time, it is easy to understand and establish relationships among the other references cited by the group to daydreaming: The Stooges, Suicide, Silver Apples, Loop, Giorgio Morodo, Patrick Cowley, Kraftwerk ... rock with electronics and eighty tons, a condensed form at its most raw and dark. But if fools who think it's just the way that musical ideas can emerge. As the word, the singer Jake Reid:

"One of our major influences outside of music is the film. We work and record even films playing in the background. Some of our favorites are directors Dario Argento, Jean-Luc Goddard, David Cronenberg, Jean Cocteau, Mario Bava and John Carpenter .

So, restating what I said earlier, nothing more appropriate than treating the Screen Vinyl Image as a track for those days when neither you nor the sun, want to leave the house. The music of the double, and the station may also be warm. And we are talking about sound and image, I feel obliged to finish the post with the video of the song "Fever," the fourth track "Interceptors."

Now give me back the license that covers ...

 

AND.... If you are in Richmond VA or Brooklyn this weekend, we are playing two rad shows:

Friday June 26
7PM
Ghostprint Gallery
220 W. Broad St. Richmond VA 
http://myspace.com/ghostprintgallery

Saturday June 27
8PM
Public Assembly
70 North Six Street
Brooklyn, NY
http://www.publicassemblynyc.com/events/view/845