OUI 73 BAND PROMO PHOTO Buffalo NY We Princess S*x Bullets Fire Engines

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Description:
- Rare and fantastic vintage BUFFALO'S "OUI 73" PROMO PHOTO!!!
- Authentic original publicity/press pack photograph provided by the record label.
- From the files of a defunct music magazine.
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Is there more to Buffalo music than the Goo Goo Dolls and Ani Difranco? Judging from Princess there is. This three-man/one-woman quartet -- named after a 1973 copy of the French sex mag found in the recording studio -- begin with the post-New Order European dance-beat pop of "My Sister Meek," which hearkens back nicely to a slew of excellent, more atmospheric U.K. bands such as Play Dead, Armoury Show, Skeletal Family, and second LP Blitz, and unheralded but great American outfits like Choir Invisible and Sleeper. There are plenty of hints of this sound throughout, such as the equally sublime "Katherine," but Oui 73 have more rounded: From the pounce of "Lipstick for Lisa" to the grinding guitar riff of the catchy "Choke," Oui aren't afraid to rock instead of float or shake, with one melodic song after another. When they combine these aspects, such as on "Drag the Lake," they're particularly impressive. A real good find for people growing sick of the increasingly generic, caustic aspect of the Ameraindie scene. This ought to catch some by surprise. Well known in their native Buffalo but not elsewhere, three men/one woman foursome Oui 73 are a dense, chunky, robust group that is so well recorded, it's galaxies better than the mass of so-so-sounding indie rock records. Co-producer Paul Fitzgibbons' engineering and Dave Fridmann's (Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips, get it?) brilliant mastering job crackles with voltage and depth, of a deliberate, supple, and hearty rhythm section, and most of all, of meaty twin-guitars with equal parts distortion and reverb, making for a sound as clean and smoldering as it is impenetrable and commanding. Interestingly enough, this quartet once shared a festival bill with Catherine Wheel, one of the few other four-pieces with this sort of highly evolved, strongly defined, yet hefty sound, also working with big riff structures and steely power chords (and variety). Bassist/singer Richie Coffman doesn't quite have Rob Dickinson's vocal ardor, and he sometimes skirts the brawny melodies instead of attacking them dead on, but he has too much salt and sandpaper edge in his voice not to stand out (more than all those other alt-rock singers who outscream him, needlessly). And the band itself sounds so authoritative behind him on wicked hailstorms such as the soaring "Thirteen." In fact, this is one of those rare LPs where one listen is all it takes: doubling the chops of their OK 1997 debut, Princess, Sex, Bullets & Fire Engines is a formidable American LP of European-sounding might and mettle in search of a wider audience.
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