Terrible Truths - 7” EP - 4 songs (Small Town City Living, 2011)
Terrible Truths - “No Wind, No Waves” (Bedroom Suck Records, 2012)
Terrible Truths - “Don Juan” (Bedroom Suck Records, 2012)
Hissey Miyake / Terrible Truths split 7” coming up on Bedroom Suck Records. Launch shows announced soon.
(via ranirose)
7” review from yellow green red http://www.yellowgreenred.com/?p=4814
Terrible Truths Terrible Truths 7″ (Small Town City Living)
Terrific post-punk from Terrible Truths, yet another cool new Aussie group. Four songs here, but I could go for an album right off the bat – they’ve got a vibe similar in spirit to The Slits and The Raincoats, but Terrible Truths seem a bit more subdued, like they probably don’t jump around on stage and wouldn’t be out of place opening for The xx. Kinda funky, but just because the bass lines are so moist and thick… it makes for pretty much the only funkiness I would want out of my post-punk. The two singers seem to sing most of the lyrics at the exact same time, and it really sounds great that way. I don’t know, Terrible Truths are doing a pretty specific thing, but they seem to have gotten it perfectly right, straight out of the gate. Did a little Googling, and apparently Bedroom Suck will be next to bring us some new Terrible Truths… I can’t wait.
oldish 7” review from Tim Scott: http://thethousands.com.au/melbourne/hear/terrible-truths-debut-7%E2%80%9D/
Following on from their insanely catchy ‘Don Juan‘, a track that’s been hanging about the internet dives for a while, Adelaide’s Terrible Truths drop their debut 7” – and what a doozy it is! If you like your indie rock dancey and fun with touches of lo-fi post-punk/funk similar to bands such as Pylon and ESG, then this is good news.
Liam, Rani and Stacey have been in other bands including Rites Wild, Bitch Prefect, Dud Pills and Kitchens Floor but Terrible Truths sounds really nothing like the others. It’s more what I imagine kids in brightly coloured polka dot parachute pants and hooped earrings would be bouncing around to in a NYC warehouse party circa 1986.
Indeed the loose groove on ‘Lift Weights’ brings to mind the bouncy funk of ESG, the influential early Eighties South Bronx band whose style, like the Terrible Truths’, centres around snapping snares, funky bass and pop-flavoured guitar.
Rani and Stacey’s call and response/shouty vocals on ‘Diamonds’ adds a more punk edge while the crisp almost surfy guitar intro to ‘Patterns’ brings dreams of poolside drinks at Waikiki’s Royal Hawaiian hotel. Look for an upcoming split with Melbourne’s Hissey Miyake and a cassette via US label Dream Recordings.
STILL SINGLE: Terrible Truths – s/t 7” EP (Small Town City Living)
RECOMMENDED
Australia’s hit parade continues, now with Terrible Truths, a lady-led trio from Adelaide working the unadorned post-punk angle. This one’s great if you were looking for something unadorned and sinewy, geometrically correct post-punk plane drawings with great, uplifting vocals in the early Siouxsie/Annie Anxiety/Delta 5 camp. This sort of thing has been done so many times, and is very hard to get wrong – you need that groove, you need to work both for and against it, and you’ll achieve the rest based on what else you can bring to it. Guitarist Stacey Wilson and bassist Rani Rose understand this, and work with their own voices to bring a sense of urgency to the music. I will probably never get tired of this sort of thing and I doubt a lot of you will, either. Four great songs, with the side A tracks shining a bit more brightly (especially “Lift Weights”). Liam Kenny of Kitchen’s Floor plays the drums and boxes things in quite nicely as well. 300 numbered copies, gold vinyl. Grab a few. (http://terrible-truths.tumblr.com)
(Doug Mosurock)
from Permanent Records in Chicago…
7in - Terrible Truths - Patterns EP (Import)
Australia just WILL NOT STOP with the hits! Here’s the debut 7” from a trio from Adelaide on the ‘Small Town City Living’ label and we’re treated to 4 songs of female-fronted post-punk a’la Slits, Bush Tetra, and Kleenex, as well as their more modern comrades like Grass Widow or Explode Into Colors but injected with lil’ bit of modern Aussie awesome-ness. Clattering and wiry guitar slink and swim over thumping bass and drums - it’s a real side-flipper (as in we keep flipping it from one side to the next over and over) and as long as we keep getting stuff this amazing from Oz, it will most assuredly be recommended like this is right here. Limited to 300 copies and already sold out at the source - grab it or regret it for eternity! RECOMMENDED.
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