Anyway, as always, I got a laugh with the name of their album when front man Adam Gears sent me the album to check out. I mean they really aren’t joking at this point, “the dreaded carp” is literally something a French guy would say about a French woman… or really any woman, of any nationality. I will admit that I have heard rumors that French women aren’t the most habitual of bathers, I mean I get the joke (btw, pretty gross guys. grow up!), so if that is true I guess part of me can kind of understand? However, on the other hand if French men are in fact into women but are just tremendous total des perdants jerk, I wouldn’t bathe either in the hopes they’d leave me alone too. Either way, France sounds like a nightmare. Your bread rules though!

Say Like the French Say is:

David Nicoletti – Drums
James Nelson – Guitar/Backup Vocals
Adam Gears – Guitar/Vocals

The Dreaded Carp also features Tom Berg from Self-Evident & Zebulon Pike on bass.

The Dreaded Carp Track List
Track One: Pathetic
Track Two: Contract
Track Three: Fall Into Line
Track Four: The Storm
Bonus Track: I was told it was a super secret

The album was recorded by SLTFS at Egret Studios.

The album was mixed and mastered by Jeff Halland at Vaudville.

Ok, it seriously is really good. Plus could there be a more fitting name for a group out of Austrailia? Nope. The album made me want to dance right off the bat with the first track, ‘Castles in the Sky’. Actually before I started wanting to dance I remembered back to college when I swear there was a clubby song called Castles in the Sky or something that my roomates and I used to blast throughout the apartment while we were all getting ready to go out to the bar… excuse me… CLUB… ok, no, it was a bar and we would blast Chingy. Anyway, I couldn’t remember why Castles in the Sky was ringing a bell and it was literally driving me insane so I did a Google search and I learned ‘Castle in the Sky’ was apparently a 1986 Anime film and then James Van Der Beek and Anna Paquin were in the 2003 American version. I’m just certain that piece of trivia will come in handy at some point, or it won’t…

Track two, ‘Sunlight’ rules. Also, the music video they made for it is ridiculous and if you would like to view it, you can

CLICK RIGHT HERE.

Track three, ‘Shooting Stars’ starts out pretty slow and there is some kind of annoying synthesizer noise going on in the background, but then about half-way through it completely redeems itself and becomes an awesome song.

Track four, ‘So Demanding’. I liked it.

Track five, ‘Gone Away’ starts with two snaps, like the sound of two fingers snapping, not once, but twice, so you know its gonna be a good one.

Track six, ‘Prelude’, starts with slow piano sounds of which build into a pretty phat beat. It is not referring to the 1987 Moody Blues album because that is just not how Austrailians roll. Overall pretty boring song though.

Track seven, ‘Not Over’ is awesome, because just when you are tired of listening to ‘Prelude’, like you are thinking to yourself, “wow after that last song I kind of wish this record was, in fact, over” you just click to the next track and then you get ‘Not Over’ and it is completely different, and really good.

Track eight, ‘Snake Charmer’ has some kind of weird flute or lute playing in the background and it is VERY Middle Eastern sounding sounding, which is totally borderline racist, right? It doesn’t matter because down under, apparently there are no rules.

Track nine, ‘Always’ was just a little too glowsticky for me.

Track ten, ‘Golden Wings’ is just ridiculous. You will have to grab a copy of the album to figure out if I mean ridiculous good or ridiculous bad.

Track eleven, ‘Way Back Home’ ends the album quite nicely, on a pretty low-key note. Like wow it’s 6am and I lost my pacifier I guess I should go home and sleep for 4-5 days.

Anyway, seriously an awesome album, especially if you like to fucking DANCE. Or maybe you just secretly love the shit out of some Austrailian dance music, there’s really nothing wrong with that. Or is there…

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