UPDATE: Audio removed due to impending release – May 2008!

Woot. Back to be pwned by the embed alignments. Oh how I enjoy this place…

Getting left aligned after 30 minutes struggling today is Midasuno‘s Sister Temptation, taken from their almost quite new debut album Songs In The Key Of Fuck. Will I be spanked by Vu for saying that? You wish you’d said it now don’t you…

I’ve known lead singer Scott since he started bugging me on MSN for demos of my favourite band, incidentaly liking them so much he got their lead singer to sing on the Key Of… album, but enough of that. Midasuno are an alt-metal-rock band from the depths of Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales (that bit to the left of England for those of you who care not for principalities).

The first Midasuno songs I heard were demos Scott sent me over afformentioned MSN and were promptly listend to every day while I tried to get fit while jogging along the beaches of mid-wales during Uni. And as said fitness increased, seemingly so did Midasuno’s musical efforts. So good are they now that the album powered me over four miles a couple days ago, and if that ain’t a sign of a good album I dunno what is. Surprisingly the new album still contains some of the original demos I heard which have also been a part of numerous Midasuno single and EP releases since. Thank god they know a good song when they make one, I can’t be having with bands who keep their best tracks to themselves *cough*crimea*cough*. Ah cummon… like I’d get though a post without mentioning them.

Back to this track; Sister Temptation’s the lead tune on the album and… I dunno what’s up with Scott’s voice, I guess he’s gone for an ironicly auto tuned Ibiza dance act sound on the song, though almost every other track is distinctively ‘suno. The band always manage to get an unhealthy amout of melodies and sing along tunes into a genre that’s far too often devoid of it; Reactions becoming an epic sounding orchestral affair and 1997 beating the best of the UK’s indie rock efforts. Klaxons? Mercury winners? Fuck off.

– Christopher ( pepsi_max2k )