Posted by AKOUSTIK ANARKHY on 3/27/2007, 1:09 pm http://www.highvoltage.org.uk/displaydemoreview.asp?num=2446&band=103 Post-rock. What does it all mean? Is it a byword for intelligent, unconventional, instrumental-led guitar music? Or is it just a word concocted by music journalists to categorise anything that 'doesn't quite fit'. Manchester's Autokat have had the dubious fortune of being well and truly tarred with the post-rock brush. As a result, you may expect to find a deliberately obtuse dirge of an album derided by those who just simply 'don't understand'. In fact, quite the opposite is true. 'Late Night Shopping' is a deceptively poppy album that works itself under your skin like a dangerous-looking but ultimately harmless snake. It is an album that exists well and truly in the city. But unlike Bloc Party's recent offering, dominated by commuter trains and walking round Album highlights include the driving punk of 'Dish Out', the surreal paranoia of opener 'Shot' and the ominous creepiness of instrumental 'Uber Patriot'. It's certainly not an album for a bright summer's day but it will make you feel more than a little dangerous dodging trams in the city centre.
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Autokat High Voltage Album review, March 07
parks, Autokat show us a Manchester illuminated in the headlights of a rainy day in November. It is paranoid but hopeful, urgent yet uplifting.
If anything, it's the album that Interpol would have made if they'd lived in Old Trafford and not Queens.
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