Mar 21 2008
Meneguar - Bury A Flower
Every now and again I’ll come across a band that should be huge. Maybe not in the sense of selling out arenas or anything quite that dramatic, but indie huge. Maybe Pavement or Weezer level, or Broken Social Scene or whatever else the kids are listening to these days. Anyway, I digress. Meneguar are one of those bands. Somehow they’ve managed to put out two albums without me never having heard of them until a couple of months back. They are already firmly cemented as my discovery of 2008 though, and I’ve had their second album, Strangers In Our House, on almost constant repeat of late.
There is nothing flashy about these songs. This isn’t a band that dabbles in extra instrumentation as a gimmick. What you’ve got here is the standard rock band setup, nothing more, nothing less. Yet there is an urgency here not often heard. The vocals vary from the restrained to the deranged, often within a few seconds. Every song is good enough to be a single; every single good enough to be a classic.
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