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Ten Kens - For Posterity (2010)

Genre: Indie Rock | Label: Last Gang Records | 12 tracks

Ten Kens are gearing up to release their second album on FatCat, the aptly titled ‘For Posterity’, which sees them looking forward to the future with a renewed sense of vigour and artistic purpose.

Whilst ‘For Posterity’ is a very different beast to the self-titled album, many of the elements that yielded such a critically well received debut still survive and are enhanced. Ten Kens continue to be an idiosyncratic band that find delight in toying with the listeners expectations, often at multiple points within a single song. ‘Johnny Ventura’, the first track from the new album is a prime example, introducing a Roky Erickson-like howl from Dan Workman over the top of a crushing guitar riff, before stopping abruptly for a brief ethereal mid-song interlude, perfectly demonstrating the bands ability to juxtapose quiet introspection with unabashed belligerence.

Indeed, it is the range of contrasts which make ‘For Posterity’ such an intriguing listen. Heavenly vocals appear hauntingly over dark sludgy guitars which then themselves provide a platform for a surprisingly spiky post-punk riff, or the prelude to a screaming deluge of noise. Still, whilst the band sought simply to capture the spirit unique to each song, the band have maintained the ability to record an album with a sonic narrative, through the widescreen sense of drama that characterised their self-titled debut. However, whilst the musical intent of that was to make a tangible body of work, ‘For Posterity’ feels more like a spirit, haunting the listener with a brooding dread that runs throughout the album and binds its contrasting musical elements together.

Tracklist:

01. Johnny Ventura

02. Back To Benign

03. Insignificant Other

04. For Posterity

05. Screaming Viking

06. Summer Camp

07. Grass Master

08. Style Wars

09. Hard Sell

10. Welfare Green

11. Yellow Peril

12. Can't Not Be Dark

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