THE SUPER INSURGENT GROUP OF INTEMPERANCE TALENT - The Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talent (FFWD/Reverberation)
If your only experience of Indonesian rock and roll is an oh-so-lame Beatles cover band in a dingy Bali club (and don't blame 'em on the mushroom omelette), take a swig of Arak rice wine and listen up. There's an Indonesian band called by The Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance, OK? That might be a mouthful but it could easily be writ large in billboard-sized letters outside almost any venue in the world that still plays ballsy guitar rock and roll.
Airborne is the Next Great White Hope in the Australian stakes, drawing a line through pub rock names like AC/DC, the Tatts and the Angels. TSIGOIT really sounds like none of the aforementioned but packs the power of 10 coal-burning power stations, without any of the greenhouse emissions.
You want a guitar-fueled stab to the solar plexus? "Black Amplifier" delivers like a mean and hungry Jakarta kick-boxer. How about a singalong chorus on the back of swaggering riff-a-rama? "Save Me" does the trick. "Clove Duster" is meaner than a Javanese junkyard dog (and undoubtedly tastier.) The closer, "Soul Sister", threatens to crossover into syncopated rhythms before rolling out a massive guitar lick and tramping all around the room in size 11 combat boots, a rock wolf in obvious carnivore's clothing.
Two guitars, wrought iron vocals and a beefy but supple engine room wouldn't be nearly enough if the songs sucked. They don't and the only regret is that there are only four and TSIGOIT isn't playing at my local. The production sounds mighty as well. Don't let fear of the unknown put you off grabbing a copy.–
The Barman
