code: BRRL 011
artist: THEY STOLE A MILLION
title: Idle b/w Housewarming Party
format: 7" single (45 rpm)
release: August 2003

 

They Stole A Million? They did steal their name from an old Commodore 64 game, that's for sure. However, they don't play minimalist electronic dance music, they play full-on, in-your-face, heavy-on-the-guitars punk rock. But not in the presently prefered garagey rockin'n'rollin' sense of the word, but in the more contemporary, more hardcore sense. Ok, they may not sound like The Clash or Black Flag or (insert your favourite punk holy cow), but they do remind of the melodic assault of Mike Ness's White Light White Heat-era Social Distortion or such early 90's British punk icons as Leatherface or Snuff. Or some of the rougher acts of the emo punk scene, but without the cuteness and the pretense.

Idle is They Stole A Million's debut single, brilliant in its simplicity, a straight-forward song that sports a huge wall of loud, screeching, ringing guitars and a fair amount of sheer inner rage splattered all around it's three intense minutes. Flipside's Housewarming Party represents the band's subtler tones and more dynamics.

Rhythm Barrel Records invites you to meet and greet this up'n'coming quintet from Turku, Finland. There's more to come from where this came from.

Band contact:
They Stole A Million
c/o Mirko Metsola
Puutarhakatu 37 A as 1
FIN-20100 TURKU
Finland

e-mail: [email protected]

 

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