Powersolo
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Live for the first season
Powersolo
sxrmsessions#9/first season
When we found out that the Railthin brothers were playing at the Europavox festival, we couldn’t miss the chance to have them in the room! Luckily the guys accepted and performed the most incredible session ever done, for our own selfish pleasure. Denmark, Denmark!
PowerSolo return with an album that cuts to the bone. 12 songs in 30 minutes just like the good old days. BLOODSKINBONES. Blood, skin and bones. Tendons, nerves, muscles and not so much as a gram of excess fat on a skeleton that can be seen and felt. Very much in tune with the Jeppesen brothers’ bodies, which grace the cover. The railthin brothers, Kim Kix and Atomic Child, are once again a duo after the group’s drummer of five years, JC Benz, pulled the plug to focus on his sound studio and family. Benz has however still been on drum duty on BLOODSKINBONES, which was also recorded in his studio. Three men in one room. Drums and two guitars and then a dozen songs that want you no good and go straight for the throat. This is PowerSolo in their natural habitat – just like they are live, where they have earned an incomparable reputation for being a full- on, intense and always entertaining band.
In the three years since PowerSolo’s last studio album ”Egg” the band has been touring intensively both by themselves as well as with kindred spirits Heavy Trash (Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray) in the countries where the record is available: 4 tours in the USA, 2 in Great Britain, 2 in France, Benelux, Germany, Iceland, Sweden and Norway – and several more around their homestead of Denmark.
PowerSolo has also recorded a soundtrack to the movie Himmerland (2008), contributed to a tribute album for cult producer Joe Meek, and have as backing band recorded songs for two whole albums with Heavy Trash. On top of all that, the brothers Kim and Bo have recorded Kim and the Cinders’ debut album, which was released in August 2008.
But it is in the flagship PowerSolo, where the brothers’ completely unique style is most clearly conveyed. Over the top, but not trying to be clever. Catchy, but never pleasing. Instead of middle-of-the-road Powersolo drives off-road. Jump in and put BLOODSKINBONES on the stereo. Turn up the volume and say a prayer. Atomic Child Bo and Kim Kix will guarantee you an unsafe ride on the shortest way home.