RSS
RSS

Auto!Automatic!!

Thu, Aug 31, 2006

Instrumental, Rock

Not sure what’s up with the overuse of exclamation points (Thunderbirds Are Now! are also guilty) but that’s beside the point. Because Tampa’s Auto!Automatic!! are pretty! fucking! solid!! Long time readers are well aware that Scissorkick is a sucker for tight instrumental chops and this power trio deliver — channeling the old school (read Don Caballero, Breadwinner) through the new school (think Volta do Mar, The Six Parts Seven) — and surfacing clean, filtered and ready to funnel. Although I haven’t been exposed to their entire catalog, the little I’ve heard is pristine and more importantly, interesting, which can often be the shortcoming of instrumental rock music. Fans of niche rock are often guilty of hyperbole but it can also be said that instrumental music is undeservedly ignored because of its lack of vocals. Fuck that. Most singers have shit to say anyway. In the case of Auto!Automatic!! it’s the success of an old truism — “It’s not what you say, it’s what you do” — that should warrant an open ear. A well balanced delivery of chop-tastic indie instrumentalism.

RIYL: Don Caballero, The Six Parts Seven, Maserati, Dysrhythmia, From Monument to Masses

, ,

This post was written by:

steve - who has written 132 posts on scissorkick.

I've been doing scissorkick for over a decade now -- in one form or another. Unfortunately there's years of it sitting in cyberspace that I couldn't move from blogger to wordpress 4 years ago. I should post more often, but it's always been more about quality than quantity. It's a love affair that takes less than it gives back and that's mostly thanks to you.

Contact the author

5 Comments For This Post

  1. Jon Gales Says:

    Rock!On!! The CD comes out next week and is chocked full of instrumental goodness.

  2. A-DUB Says:

    AUTO!AUTOMATIC!! CD RELEASE SHOW SUNDAY SEPT 3rd AT THE ORPHEUM In YBOR

  3. autoloans Says:

    autoloans

  4. Ian Kaplan Says:

    I like it a lot (especially the drumming), but I can’t help creating melodies in my head as I listen. It sounds like the engineer accidentally left one of the faders down during mixing. Perhaps that’s the point of the style? Or maybe I’m just a sucker for lyrical melody.

    I like it, but I would love it with a good, slow-moving melody and some vague poetry overtop.

  5. Arran Mc Says:

    this song is grate i love it will have to buy the cd some time

Leave a Reply