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Guardian Review:The motorik rhythm invented in the 70s by the German group Neu! – a 4/4 throb devoid of fills or ornament, replicating the feeling of ceaseless movement – has been an increasingly frequent feature of underground rock these last couple of years, but few bands have used it as well as this Dublin trio on the opening track of their debut album. After four stabs of organ, High Tekk Train Wreck sprints away from the lights with a squeal of wheelspin, its *motorik soundling like a customised and tuned Ford Focus on a suburban *estate rather than a sedately cruising BMW on the autobahns. Its fabulously exciting, and this asbo version of *Krautrock is *repeated a couple of songs later, on Witch Hunt, which sounds like the *result of Lemmy moving to *Düsseldorf rather than forming Mot&#246 wrote: »

NME Review wrote:

Put this incredible album on and, from the first second of opener ‘High Tekk Train Wreck’ everyone – regardless of musical persuasion – sits up and asks, “What the hell is that?” The answer is that it’s a fantastically unhinged mix of speeded-up krautrock rhythms, dirty drones and wonky synthesizers, which is at once weird and danceable and very pop; as a case in point, ‘The Charmer’ sounds like Britney Spears’ ‘Womanizer’ as played by New York experi-mental duo Silver Apples. All we know about Twinkranes is they come from Dublin, there are three of them called Blonde Fox, Rooster and Auburn Spinner. But with sounds like this, who needs biog and sensible names?

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Scheer
A Reappraisal of a Forgotten Irish Band

If Scheer had been a landscape" they would have been an icy tundra on a beautiful clear night " the kind of night where the sky is crowded with diamond stars shining like inspiration but the ground is dense with shadows that whisper of witchcraft and black magic. An insidious darkness permeates their music" wading under the sound with the gritty metal of the band and soaring high over it with Audrey Gallagher"s ghostly vocals.

However" Scheer lived a life and died a death that has become all too familiar to Irish bands. Originally formed in 1990 in Derry" the band"s infancy lasted three years before they developed the confidence and courage to start playing regular gigs. The vivacity and edginess of their performances not only blew audience after audience away" but attracted the attention of Son" a small independent Irish label" with whom the band went through it"s adolescence. Their time with the label saw the release of the four"track Psychobabble and the single Wish You Were Dead: the single by which most people still remember the quintet.

Things really kicked off for Scheer when they were asked to sign to 4AD " an unlikely alliance which would eventually be indirectly responsible for the downfall of the band so close to hitting the top. At the top of their game" Scheer played across the world with bands like Korn" Red Hot Chili Peppers" Bush" Placebo" Throwing Muses" Ash and the Jesus and Mary Chain" and even had an interview televised in Russia to an audience of 100 million.

Perhaps most memorably" Scheer"s involvement with 4AD led to the release of an astounding debut album" Infliction. As Joe Bates "drummer" said almost 10 years ago: "When you"re listening to music and it"s really ****ing good and it"s really pushing all the buttons and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. If we could do that"" Well that is exactly what Scheer did with Infliction. The dying echoes of prog"rock and metal inherent in the crashing rhythm guitars" intricate lead work rising often to squeals and pounding drums never once overshadow the exquisite melodies and soaring soprano voice. From the immensity of tracks like openers Sh"a and Howling Boy to the painful minimalism of Babysize and Goodbye" Scheer proved themselves masters of the control of technique and sound" matching word with music in an album of subtle but haunting imagery. Mention this album in any forum and response is always immediate and enthusiastic.

Unfortunately" this would prove to be as high as Scheer could fly. As the band approached premature old age" relations with 4AD became increasingly strained and uneasy" "due"" according to 4AD" "to the fact that Scheer were an unabashed heavy metal group " not exactly a typical 4AD genre" " a statement which proves in itself how the "indie" label misunderstood the Derry band. Scheer left 4AD in August 1998 in order to start their own record label" Schism Records. However" the damage had already been done" and the fivesome disbanded not long after" releasing" posthumously as it were" the aptly titled …And Finally in 2000: the final headstone on the grave of one of our most promising acts of the last decade.