{"id":15133,"date":"2021-04-17T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=15133"},"modified":"2021-04-16T19:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:21:48","slug":"sator-basement-noise-wild-kingdom-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=15133","title":{"rendered":"Sator – ‘Basement Noise’ (Wild Kingdom Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was typical Saturday morning in the late 90s when I rode my bike to a friend\u2019s house to hang out and do much of nothing for the day. His family had just accommodated some Swedish exchange students who had kindly given him a couple of CDs \u2013 Sator\u2019s \u2018Headquake\u2019 and Atomic Swing\u2019s \u2018Car Crash into the Blue\u2019. From that day we listened to them both religiously, and over time I delved fully into the Sator discography. It wasn\u2019t until 2014 that I finally got the chance to see them, when they finally headed to The Pipeline in London for a blistering show with The Nomads.<\/p>\n

The band have recently announced some re-releases on CD and vinyl, including the re-mastered \u2018Basement Noise\u2019 (originally recorded in 2006), which will be released in early June 2021. Sator have always blended hard rock and all-out punk together with ease, and \u2018Basement Noise\u2019 is no different. What makes Sator so good, though, is simply the relationship between brilliant songwriting and sharp production. Chips Kiesbye has a way of bringing out the best in any record \u2013 only a couple of years ago I bought The Dahlmanns \u2018American Heartbeat\u2019 and wondered at the production of it (Kiesbye is also a songwriter on it). He\u2019s also worked closely with bands such as the Hellacopters and Sahara Hotnights.<\/p>\n

\u2018Basement Noise\u2019, with its black leather front cover, is a brawling album full of Sator\u2019s typical hard sound and pop rock melodies, stuffed with harmonies and singalong choruses. From the rolling opener of \u2018So Dressed Up\u2019 the album doesn\u2019t let up for a minute \u2013 the garage rock of \u2018Angelina and Sister Ray\u2019 or the punk rock party of \u2018Escape from Pigvalley Beach\u2019, there\u2019s not a single dud on this record. Like many of Sator\u2019s albums, \u2018Basement Noise\u2019 is a delightful bundle of the band\u2019s various influences all tied up in a collection of tight tunes. And talking about influences \u2013 this album has one of Sator\u2019s greatest and saddest songs, \u2018Goodbye Joey\u2019, in honour of the late Ramones singer, who passed away 20 years ago this month. Listening to this album again now, \u2018This Ain\u2019t the Way Home\u2019 brings back memories of first hearing \u2018I Wanna Go Home\u2019 from the \u2018Headquake\u2019 album \u2013 both such wonderful songs. Whether it\u2019s the almost Kiss-esque riot of \u2018Water on a Drowning Man\u2019, the stomping \u2018At the End of Time\u2019, or the searing \u2018You Walk Alone\u2019, this album simply kicks from first to last.<\/p>\n

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WEB:\u00a0Website<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0Wild Kingdom<\/a><\/p>\n

PRE-ORDER LINK:\u00a0Here<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Craggy Collyde<\/p>\n

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It was typical Saturday morning in the late 90s when I rode my bike to a friend\u2019s house to hang out and do much of nothing for the day. His family had just accommodated some Swedish exchange students who had kindly given him a couple of CDs \u2013 Sator\u2019s \u2018Headquake\u2019 and Atomic Swing\u2019s \u2018Car Crash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6558,3106,6556,6557,6559,6560,760,6555],"class_list":["post-15133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-chips-kiesbye-lead-vocals-and-guitars","tag-craggy-collyde","tag-hans-gafvert-keyboards-and-backing-vocals","tag-heikki-kiviaho-bass-and-backing-vocals","tag-kent-norberg-lead-vocals-and-guitars","tag-mikael-solen-drums-and-backing-vocals","tag-sator","tag-wild-kingdom-records","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133","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=15133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15202,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133\/revisions\/15202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}