{"id":895,"date":"2011-09-21T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=895"},"modified":"2011-09-21T07:14:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T11:14:01","slug":"everything-all-the-time-mojo-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/09\/21\/everything-all-the-time-mojo-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything All The Time: Mojo Fury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mojo Fury<\/a> is: Michael Mormecha (guitar\/vocals), James Lyttle (guitar\/vocals\/keys), Ciaran McGreevy (bass) and Gerry Morgan (drums), and they are from Lisburn, just outside of Belfast, in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

The title of this post is a lyric fragment from Pill Pigeon is an Orange Wheel<\/em>, song number six on Visiting Hours of a Travelling Circus<\/em>, their first record, released earlier this year by Graphite Records. It is also an accurate summation of their overall sound.<\/p>\n

There are sharp syncopated synths layered over precise quasi-industrial drums, and the remaining space is filled with heavy, slightly fuzzy guitars and Michael Mormecha’s voice. (If there are any fans of Pretty Hate Machine<\/em>-era Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine in the audience, this band is for you.)<\/p>\n

There are two breaks from the whirlwind: the first one is We Should Just Run Away<\/em>, which is as close to a pop love song as they get, which\u00c2\u00a0 is not all that close, really. The (somewhat) softer side of Mojo Fury still contains thudding industrial echoes.<\/p>\n

The second one is Electric Sea<\/em>, which really is the aural equivalent of walking into the sea. It starts with a simple almost-acoustic guitar and cymbals that skitter through like foamy wavelets on a shell-strewn shore, and then layers of sound build gradually, until suddenly you’re out past the breakers and it’s time to play jump or dive with the whitecaps, or, rather, a sudden wall of guitar. In this case the correct answer is dive: just sit quietly for a moment and wrap yourself in the last minute or so of the song.<\/p>\n

As an examples\/enticements to explore further, here they are with (WARNING: CONTAINS CLOSE-UPS OF BUGS!) The Mann<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Mojo Fury - The Mann<\/div><\/div>
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