Treetops / Capgras Family / Red Hyms / The Birmingham Apr 30

Saw Treetops play there a few weeks ago, their new sound is kinda cool.

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got sent this from a blog today about Adelaide last weekend.

TREETOPS (**) myspace ::
And then there's our third act. I've got no fucking clue WHAT time or place these freaks hail from but I CAN hazard a few guesses: Syd Barrett, The Goodies, The ''Madchester'' scene from the late 80's to early 90's (ie: The Stone Roses, The Happy Mondays or hell itself erupting in the deep recesses of Richard Ashcroft's face), the extended cast of ''Trainspotting'', any number of music videos playing on RAGE on any given Saturday night at 3AM, or whoever the fuck came up with ''Badger Badger Badger''. I'd also suspect that despite all appearances they are in fact not ''out of work actors living in the town of Guilford'' but are in fact visiting aliens from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. Yup if ever we needed another sign that planet Earth will soon be demolished to make way for a interstellar hyperspace bypass (and believe me we've got plenty!), then it would be THIS band sending us all off with a smile tonight (and personally I couldn't think of a better way to go!). Treetops. They're a lysergic mix of about a million different influences (and I swear I hear Pavement in there somewhere!?) but mostly they're the smooth grooves of Chemical Brothers' ''Exit Planet Dust'' and Primal Scream's ''Screamadelica'', laced with guitar lines fresh from The Pixies, synth lines straight out of Pink Floyd's ''Live at Pompeii'', the sonic fuzz of Sonic Youth and the shrill vocal delivery of Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips. Then imagine all that thrown into a mortar and pestle, ground into a fine powder, mixed in with kava and ketamine and drunk out of a coconut shell. If your eyes are rolling back in your skull right now, don't worry, you're not the only one. In fact moments before our gig tonight their singer Ben Montero (aka: the moptop in the ''Hershey Halloween'' shirt) had such a mad hit of this shit during a ''jam session'', that he had to be admitted to the emergency ward (I think he had a raging case of what.. the hiccups?) only to rock up to Jive tonight in cutoff shorts and a dazed look on his face. Of course I only knew this shit because of (a) ''wildly unsubstantiated rumours'' from a girl I met last week at the Ed Castle (damn, what was her name!?), and (b) Ben not being at all shy about thanking all the ''local emergency services'' in tonight's set.. so y'know, take that for what you will! And yes as illogical as all this sounds it only made what they were cooking on stage tonight all the more ridiculously awesome. No shit.. any arseclown can pretend they're ''psychedelic'', score a sweet distribution deal with Modular and scam high rotation on Triple J but nobody can touch what these illbient space monkeys are offering! Just look at them: the grand sum total of every cautionary tale you ever heard in highschool: this is what being ''unemployed in the Great Recession of 2009'' is ALL about! Blissfully whacked out on the couch, pulling bongs, pulling an all-nighter on a jumbo bag of Cheese Twisties (hi Corey!) and blasting a mad hit of this!? Who said there isn't an upside to a drastic worldwide economic downturn!? Treetops? FUCK YEAAAH!!

Bump.

Treetops were rad. Like Amon Dull II only better.......

whens the treetops album coming out? i swear i have been asking about this for the last 2.5 years..