The Dirty Nil - Smite EP
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| The Dirty Nil - Smite EP |
I've been looking forward to this
one as Canadian trio The Dirty Nil combine two of my favourite things in music;
brevity and melody. The longest song of this collection of five is two minutes
and forty-six seconds long but every one of the songs has a hook and not an
ounce of fat. Kicking off with the incendiary early single 'Nicotine', the
Dirty Nil show off their Ramones-esque drums and 40-a-day gravel throated
vocals with aplomb. 104 seconds later and we're on to the second song in the
shape of 'Beat', a leather clad, in your face, punk'n'roll beast that sweats
Jack Daniels and snorts crushed up drums for breakfast. Hidden in the middle of
this EP is the absolute pearl of a song that is 'New Flesh', a lumbering,
jerking and relentless Frankenstein's monster of a tune that will take hit
after hit before even starting to consider giving up its mindless pursuit.
Recent single 'Wrestle Yu To
Husker Du' still sounds fresh and perky in the same way the Pixies and early
Nirvana do - fresh and perky through a stinking hangover that starts off with
you waking up face down in an ashtray. Final track, 'Pale Blue', doesn't let up
the pace of this EP as the vocals are forced out and the beats'n'riffs chug
remorselessly onward like a super-fuelled Queens Of The Stone Age with more raw
energy and attitude. It's always gratifying that, after one or two promising
tracks, a band like the Dirty Nil go on to make an almighty racket over a
prolonged period which proves your instincts right. Raw, powerful, focused,
melodic and fierce - get some.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/thedirtynil
Live Dates:
20th February - Shea Stadium, Brooklyn
21st February - Anna Liffey's Pub, New Haven
22nd February - Tasty Burger, Cambridge
28th February - Jimmy Jazz, Guelph
2nd March - Grace Hall, Sudbury
6th March - Call The Office, London ON
14th March - Pressed, Ottawa
21st March - Silver Dollar, Toronto
28th March - Detour Music Hall, Saint Catharines
29th March - The Spice Factory, Hamilton ON