while i’d like to think i’m unpredictable and kinda hard to read, two things this weekend proved that absolutely wasn’t the case.

jak’s friday post pre-empted by a few short hours me mooching round a marylebone bookstore with a copy of updike’s ‘the women who got away’ in my hand which i’d picked up because i loved the cover but put down again because i wanted all the books in that series since they were all so well designed.

and over organic chorizo & butterbean soup (feel free to roll your eyes right now) at work an engineer who knows his stuff mentioned a band i might like. often, i approach recommendations begrudgingly, which has a little to do with my own personal brand of competitive, search & destroy new music hunting as much as it does to do with years of disappointment and mild disgust at the idea that your friend’s had your taste sooo wrong.

which brings me to the heavy (and how jules really didn’t get me wrong at all).

pah.

headnodding rhythmic hooks, fuzzed out brass sections, led zep-esque waves of sound and with the filthiest recorded drum sounds i’ve heard since ?uestlove, the heavy’s debut album ‘great vengeance & furious fire’ drops on bonfire night on ninjatunes counter imprint. they’re playing a week of pan-london gigs later this month (see their myspace for details) and i can only imagine how huge they sound, not that i’m planning to imagine it as i’ll be there.

with only one seven inch under their belt (not that impressive i know…) here’s a sample of what they’re due to drop later this year.

the heavy - coleen