{"id":13812,"date":"2020-11-04T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13812"},"modified":"2020-10-29T18:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:24:50","slug":"proto-idiot-fub-rigmarole-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13812","title":{"rendered":"Proto Idiot- ‘FUB’ (Rigmarole Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As we move slowly through time 2020\u2019s been a bastard, with a lack of live music having a definite effect on mental health and wellbeing, not just on us the listeners or viewers, but on the musicians who\u2019ve kept us sane with their craft for generations.<\/p>\n

In this fucked up Tory government\u2019s view, who all probably play Phil Collins on auto repeat, music sits sadly at the back of their agenda, alongside theatre and the arts in general. Lets see the next social media campaign with BoJo the performing chimp or our Dom Cummings retraining as human beings some time soon! They just don\u2019t know it yet.<\/p>\n

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Without live music we find ourselves (or at least I do searching for new stuff to listen to,) or at the very least pushing our own musical boundaries, which needn\u2019t include prog rock or Coldplay or Phil Collins unless you’re a Tory of course, none of these belong in any sane persons collection.<\/p>\n

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Where am I going with this? About a week ago this beauty landed in my inbox from Daley towers and it really made me sit up and listen!!! Proto Idiot in fairness are all over the place!!! But in a good way.<\/p>\n

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As I\u2019m trying to put thoughts together as I listen to the opening tracks my own thoughts are bouncing all over the place as to how I would describe them, they\u2019re tagged as garage rock, but in fairness that’s a huge category of music that ran through the 50\u2019s, 60\u2019s, 70\u2019s 80\u2019s, 90\u2019s, 00\u2019s up to present times.<\/p>\n

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And I suppose that\u2019s my conundrum with this baby as I move through the opening tracks I can\u2019t quite place it, but influences do come forward, for example \u201cI like the Way\u201d could almost be the Beatles, whereas \u201cReplace\u201d has more of any allegiance to Wire\u2019s post punk sound however brief it is!!! \u201cMountain\u201d has so much going on, you could almost call it industrial Prog? (have I just invented a new genre?) the repetitive vocals over the jangling guitar taking it into places I\u2019ve never heard before.<\/p>\n

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\u201c Head straight\u201d takes a more standard garage rock dive into the music and stands out as one of my faves on the LP.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWell\u201d has elements of Wonk Unit, elements of early Barrett led Pink Floyd but ultimately it’s a bridge into \u201cIt\u2019s no good\u201d an early garage rock review of the 60\u2019s sound that came out of California, all tied together with a post punk thread.<\/p>\n

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When \u201cEnjoy yourself\u201d kicks back in with that Post Punk vibe, you can\u2019t help but smile and your back in the day. LP closer \u201cTry to be good\u201d takes you back into that 60\u2019s Barrett era Floyd sound, again one of the LP\u2019s standouts for yours truly.<\/p>\n

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There are so great ideas in this LP when you dig underneath the sound, it\u2019ll definitely take you out of your comfort zone, but that’s a good thing.<\/p>\n

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Author: Nev Brooks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we move slowly through time 2020\u2019s been a bastard, with a lack of live music having a definite effect on mental health and wellbeing, not just on us the listeners or viewers, but on the musicians who\u2019ve kept us sane with their craft for generations. In this fucked up Tory government\u2019s view, who all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6027,4057,6028],"class_list":["post-13812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-fub","tag-nev-brooks","tag-proto-idiot","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13814,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812\/revisions\/13814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}