Seasick, By The Mission Orange.
An album most likely none of you have heard of, it was made by a couple of guys from Mount Vernon Washington who looked at music and said "Fuck that shit." And decided to be a two piece and expirement with guitar sounds. And I don't mean some retarded tech expirement wherein they make their guitars sound like a bass and piano for some retarded reason, I mean they use different sounding chord progressions and tunings.
Basically, it toggles from two extremes: With distortion and without. Holy shit. They're kind of like the White Stripes, except instead of being as little as possible it strives to have the biggest sound possible with only two people. Quite the mantra, but it works well with them.
For the most part, the album was pretty solid. There's only two real problems. Number one, lack of guitar sounds. As I said, it pretty much toggles between really Jack White sounding guitar and acoustic with piano in the background. Second problem is the singer. He's alright and it compliments the music, but his range is pretty limited. Again, comparing to White Stripes, I'd say that there guitarist is better than Jack White in technical skill, but his vocals aren't nearly as distinctive.
And to finish the comparison to the White Stripes, let's just say that their drummer doesn't suck ass. He's better than Meg White by a long shot, but to be honest pretty much any drummer is. The guys pretty good, but he never really cuts loose or anything.
If you want to have a good preview, of their songs on Myspace Postcard and Quick Little Girl are the only songs off the album currently on there. They're both pretty good, but they are far from the best they have to offer. And then there's their other songs. Hammer Fever and Madrone are good songs to listen to first.
But as I said before, if you end up liking them, don't even bother trying to find a physical copy of their music anywhere. Short of knowing them personally you'll never find one. If you search up Mission Orange on iTunes you can buy their album. It's well worth the 9 or 10 dollars.
