Din Glorious
Sat 26 Apr 2008
“Sounds like Nervous Gender ass rapping the Dead Kennedys”
Via email, EMJ managed to have a brief chat with Daniel from New York band Din Glorious. We got the inside scoop on the bands future plans and a special track off their debut album.
Thanks to myspace and good old friends of friends sifting, I stumbled across Din Glorious. After about an hour of listening and dismissing a number of bands, their track ‘I Drive Dinosaurs’ jumped out at me. With piercing laser-beams and spastic synths fused by horror-film style vocals, Din Glorious were the exciting band I was looking for.
So about Din Glorious; they formed like many bands (I suppose), “as a result of being bored on a Saturday night”. “I was drinking Vermouth with my friend John, and we decided to make our own fun” explains Daniel. “He said ‘hey let’s start a band’ and the idea just took off! We wrote some basic ideas out for songs, improvised some lyrics by intentionally mishearing conversations and snippets of other songs, and sent the word out.”
Before long the word was out that Daniel and John had something cool going on, helped by the vast array of musicians living in New York city the band started to evolve. “We were contacted by two fine young fellows who took an interest in our young project; a synth player named Zac and a drumming fellow named Justin. After adding and dropping various other people…we eventually got our final member, the dynamite kyle, and we started writing actual songs.”
Fast forward to 2008; the band has just finished and had a limited release (300 copies) of their debut album Blump Up The Jamz!. The first run of CD’s has already completely sold out, mostly due to fans who turned out to see them play on their recently completed West Coast tour. Another run of CD’s will be released shortly.
Blump Up The Jamz! is an extremely well crafted, mish-mash, wopping great mess of an album. Influenced by bands like Crystal Castles, Strip Mall Seizures and HEALTH, Din Glorious fits the mould but like the aforementioned has unique well defined characteristics. “The types of instruments we use can be anything from radios tuned to static, oil drums, power drills, vintage synthersizers, umberellas, tennis rackets, saxophones…we like mixing noisy and discordant (sounds) with found sounds and objects, intersting electronics, guitars being used in unneccessary ways and goofy idealism.”
In the mean time the band is already hard at work on new material, “I’ve started work on some new songs, and we’re planning on doing collaborative split 7″s with some of our favourite bands” says Daniel.
Din Glorious- I Drive Dinosaurs: MP3
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