'Daydream Nation' is to disaffected Punks what 'The Velvet Underground & Nico' is for disillusioned hippies. Discuss.
The four Swedes who trade under the name of Tennis Bafra would, I think, endorse this statement since they have plainly taken Sonic Youth's finest hour as a basis for their sound.
The tendency towards Slackerism presumably explains how the band, which formed in 1994, took sixteen years to get around to making their first record so Bummer is only their second release.
Some of the riffs date back to their earliest material with the nine tracks being recorded live over a period of just four days.
Featuring just guitars, drums and buried-in-the-mix vocals, there are,as you might imagine, no overdubs or studio trickery.
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The sub two minute single Shit For Brains concisely encapsulates the raw energy of their sound. Not all the tracks are as brief as this but none depart much form the same sludgey but spirited template.
Tennis Bafra have toured Europe as support to Thurston Moore, Dinosaur Jr and Polvo and if you like any of those artists, there is no good reason not to like this
Tennis Bafra's website
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