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BIOGRAPHY: No Through Road is the kind of band that could
play a birthday party, a wedding or a wake. Even when
the words are sad and the guitars bawl and holler from
grubby amplifiers, No Through Road finds a way to package
those emotions and turn them into sonic treasures. Led
by charismatic crooner and slacker king Matt Banham, the
group is at once gloriously loose and noisy, yet warm
and sincere, their songs taking no time to stick in your
brain and consequently be hummed and whistled for days
on end.
Check your high gloss hipster crap at
the door, loosen some buttons, crack a beer (or twenty)
and get down with the best party band to come out of
Adelaide since the year punk broke. Pavement sang about
haircuts; No Through Road don’t care if you’re
fluffy, furry, bald, cowlicked or moustachioed. All
they ask is that you uncross your arms, come down the
front, and together with them, proceed to dance the
night away.
Over the years the band has been praised
by everyone from Triple J to local radio and street
presses all over the country, and has played with the
likes of Okkervil River, The New Pornographers , Ben
Kweller, The Microphones, M Ward, The Tallest Man on
Earth, New Buffalo, Love of Diagrams, Wolf n Cub, British
India as well as indie rock saints Calvin Johnson and
Lou Barlow. The band even played the giant Adelaide
Entertainment Centre along with Jet, Eskimo Joe, and
Little Birdy in 2007. Were they the least bit daunted?
You’ve got to be joking!
They have also played 2 Big Day Out festivals
and a wondrous gig at St Jerome’s Laneway festival.
‘Winner.’ (yep, the full stop
is intentional) is the band’s latest album and
it consolidates No Through Road as not only a kick-arse
live band but a very talented recording act. Just listen
to the summertime hit Girls Are The Devil, the moon-soaked
highway thrash of Tornados (Oh Rachel) and the regal
slow burner (This Isn’t) Rock ’n Roll, with
its ripping guitar leads and extended feedback outro,
and you’ll wonder why this band is not yet world
famous.
Sure, calling a record ‘Winner.’
is cheeky but I’ll be damned, No Through Road
has the smarts and most importantly, the songs, to pull
it off. |