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posted in Voices and the Band by igor A gorgeous Divas band, beautiful voices. Enjoyed their show very much, would love to know when is their next show! |
The Panic
Not Yet Rated Alternative | Rock | SkaPerhaps The Panic does nothing you haven’t heard before. Haven’t we all heard it all before? There’s a drummer and a man playing bass and yet another singer with a six-string. Yea, this is not a foreign or refreshing format we’re talking about and, even more galling, the songs are in straight, plain time signatures. You could tap your toe to them. Or spit and foam about old news and the disconnected bunch of hacks who are pushing it. Whatever. This band isn’t about glitz or a cloying abundance of splashy effects. Woe be the listener who arrives to a show expecting as much. Perhaps their wares are a fusion of elements. Or maybe fusion is too considered a word for the disparate mash employed. It could be an apt criticism to say the band is floundering in a stew of its irreconcilable influences. Conversely, maybe The Panic has sometimes got it right and the alchemy’s borne up a reward; coal wrenched and pressed into diamond. "Ska rock with evil funk inflections and a dose of unabashed twang," is the tag which thus far seems a most accurate representation of the band’s strivings. But what’s in a description of music? So many musicians seem often to prefer defining themselves by what they are not. So, The Panic isn’t about shoe-gazing or chronic heartache, nor are they about musty uniforms or hairstyles that’ll be embarrassing in five years. This band doesn’t want to be the loudest or the fastest (though volume and bruising tempos will always have their place). The lyrics spring neither from a well of bottomless rage nor from an unquenchable need to shed vain tears; something less pretentious than the oft-hammered extremes. Having once accepted the old dictum of simplicity being a virtue, the songsmiths have endeavoured accordingly. Thumping tunes, sanded chaos, a dancefloor and somewhere to be lost. All that and it could be said that those who aren’t scrambling after some abstract notion of innovation are the ones whose work will come to be marked as singular and progressive. Arrive as a thief only to later find sturdier creativity. So, while presently sounding off with some melodious noises, The Panic’s got nothing but the drive and (gasp) vision to be a better musical unit in one, five or ten years. To work those pockets of listeners and carousers, carving out a welcoming sonic space that unites audience and performer. What more does any band want? Bring dancing shoes and a will to move, fuel those moments with good song and the right attitudes. Lofty, asinine talk to be sure, but what’s a bunch of dreamers to do but aim high, inflate, overstate...but maybe, thereafter, come close to the mark.Website: http://www.thepanic.ca
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