Someone called the soundcloud weatherman sent me the ‘No Feel demo’ by Drive a few weeks ago, and it was great so I contacted the band only to find that they had pretty much just gotten started and that they didn’t have any artwork or press information to give out. Now they’ve got all that stuff, plus a new track, and a new mix of ‘No Feel’; they’re are all hanging out below.
Drive is a four piece group from Hertfordshire, UK formed in April, 2011 (if you want a more romantic version of their inception check out their facebook and go ahead and hit them with a like while you’re there) and they play rock music. The distortion and their style should make you think of Dino Jr. but with more harmonizing and generally cleaner vocals. You could call ‘No Feel’ anthemic considering the eager manner in which the chorus is delivered over the crash-crashing of the cymbals. ‘Falling Back’, also a solid track, shows that these dudes have more than one speed that they feel comfortable driving, but that at the moment, they aren’t trying to take things slow. Keep in mind that these tracks are all demos from a new band, so if they don’t blow you away, I bet the fourth or fifth track they produce will.
Download each song below [for free] directly from their soundcloud by clicking the little arrow at the right.http://goldsweatshirt.com/2011/05/28/introducing-drive/
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Drive are a new band. By new, I don’t mean they formed a couple years ago, or even formed a few months ago. Drive formed last month! And this is their first (released) demo. No, not even a proper single. Drive haven’t even played a gig yet (the first ones will come in July). And it goes without saying that they’re still unsigned. Because they only formed last month!
Despite this, the Hertfordshire quartet – who met at Glastonbury 2010 – are already getting UK and US radio play (not the major stations mind you – not yet anyway), and the first few bloggers have started furiously hyping up the band (one can just sense the oncoming blogo-frenzy).
‘No Feel’ is the reason why so many people have already latched onto Drive. An alternative indie track that sounds so professionally made that it’s easy to simply dismiss Drive as horrible liars who have actually been a recording band for at least a couple of decades. Their sound is oldschool alt-rock with hefty debts to My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth. But although there are these elements of shoegazing and noise rock that too many bands are currently rehashing, Drive manage to sound authentic. The distortion is understated, the bass and drums are solid, and the vocals are raw but tuneful.
If ‘No Feel’ is something that this four piece can pen and record in just a matter of weeks of forming a band, then I’m very, very excited – and very, very scared – to hear what they will be coming up with in a year’s time.
Author: Clive Rozario
http://www.aaamusic.co.uk/2011/05/23/drive-no-fee/
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Something exciting in a raw sound. Drive create that naturally authentic brilliance in music, that has been lost with all the Mac's and the synths in the world. The freshly cut feel to the two tracks released thus far is not due to the demo status just the passion and enthusiasm which pours through, the songs being stadium sized and summer-with-the- roof-down good. The best of the tracks on offer is 'Falling Back', which starts slowly, building subtly to a crashing waterfall of a chorus, it feels understated but not refrained. It was meant to be that way. The other record 'No Feel' is the bigger, louder older brother, again having a huge ability to sound track the drive down the coast. Drive have managed to create what every person who picks up an electric guitar wants to and then make it really fucking good . Normally it takes a while for a band to find its feet, perfect its sound but in Drive it feels that we have 4 people who know what music they want to make. They are not apologising for being loud, they want the whole world to know.
Something exciting in a raw sound. Drive create that naturally authentic brilliance in music, that has been lost with all the Mac's and the synths in the world. The freshly cut feel to the two tracks released thus far is not due to the demo status just the passion and enthusiasm which pours through, the songs being stadium sized and summer-with-the- roof-down good. The best of the tracks on offer is 'Falling Back', which starts slowly, building subtly to a crashing waterfall of a chorus, it feels understated but not refrained. It was meant to be that way. The other record 'No Feel' is the bigger, louder older brother, again having a huge ability to sound track the drive down the coast. Drive have managed to create what every person who picks up an electric guitar wants to and then make it really fucking good . Normally it takes a while for a band to find its feet, perfect its sound but in Drive it feels that we have 4 people who know what music they want to make. They are not apologising for being loud, they want the whole world to know.
http://gotyourgroove.blogspot.com/2011/05/drive.html
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Drive might have only been a band for about 10 minutes (they met at last year’s Glastonbury and started the actual band last month) but there was rightly a bit of buzz when their first demo went up a week or so ago. Yesterday they put up a new version of that track ‘No Feel’, as well as a song called ‘Falling Back’. These are two very early but very promising tunes that are both available for download:
If you’re into saying which old bands new bands sound like then Sonic Youth is probably the right bracket to put these kids in. If you’re into saying which new bands new bands sound like then maybe Tribes fit the bill. Personally I think you’d be better off just listening to the tracks, they’re great.
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Drive might have only been a band for about 10 minutes (they met at last year’s Glastonbury and started the actual band last month) but there was rightly a bit of buzz when their first demo went up a week or so ago. Yesterday they put up a new version of that track ‘No Feel’, as well as a song called ‘Falling Back’. These are two very early but very promising tunes that are both available for download:
If you’re into saying which old bands new bands sound like then Sonic Youth is probably the right bracket to put these kids in. If you’re into saying which new bands new bands sound like then maybe Tribes fit the bill. Personally I think you’d be better off just listening to the tracks, they’re great.
http://sevensevens.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/drive/
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...Secondly, and perhaps more relevantly to what we’re talking about right now, is the sound of the buzz that is sure to follow our latest band to be slapped with our Track Of The Day stamp, the quick-firey named Drive. In all honesty, seldom few bands that invade our inboxes break out onto the blog section itself (although don’t let that put you off – if you’re good, you’ll be fine), such is the significance of Drive‘s offering in the form of No Feel; a sunny-day-car-cruising, pure guitars/drums/vocals number that would surely prick the ears of fans of Sonic Youth and Pavement, and also perhaps Yuck and Tripwires for want of reference to more modern contemporaries. A real treat to hear, and we can’t wait to hear more.
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...Secondly, and perhaps more relevantly to what we’re talking about right now, is the sound of the buzz that is sure to follow our latest band to be slapped with our Track Of The Day stamp, the quick-firey named Drive. In all honesty, seldom few bands that invade our inboxes break out onto the blog section itself (although don’t let that put you off – if you’re good, you’ll be fine), such is the significance of Drive‘s offering in the form of No Feel; a sunny-day-car-cruising, pure guitars/drums/vocals number that would surely prick the ears of fans of Sonic Youth and Pavement, and also perhaps Yuck and Tripwires for want of reference to more modern contemporaries. A real treat to hear, and we can’t wait to hear more.
http://killingmoonlimited.com/2011/05/17/track-of-the-day-drive-no-feel/
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May 4, 2011 Indie Radio Show & Podcast
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May 4, 2011 Indie Radio Show & Podcast
