Hailing from Cambridge & London town, The Tupolev Ghost are kicking up a storm with their new s/t album released on the oh-so good Big Scary Monsters label. Taking anger & energy from punk greats - Black Flag, Husker Du, Th, filtering it through the post hardcore noise of Fugazi, At The Drive In, And None of Them Knew They Were Robots, & adding a good sized British helping of Mclusky (gone but not forgotten!), Mogawi & Scarfo, these guys might just have it all.
Seriously, they sound like Secondsmile before they kind of lost it, an angrier Hundred Reasons & a more melodic Million Dead - so in other words bloody fantastic!
Buy there new album here - thetupolevghost.bigcartel.com/product/the-tupolev-ghost
or through your local record shop (if their are any left!)
Check them out on -
Their Site
Myspace
And if still don't believe us - here's what some nice people had to say;
Fantastically taut and tense post-hardcore - a melting pot of top notch classic influences from Fugazi to Mogwai and Don Cab.
Rock Sound
Post-hardcore so spiky it should come swaddled in cotton wool.
NME
Gallows found the limelight and a loyal following invoking the spirit
of Black Flag and Minor Threat with a modern twist. On tonight's
showing, there's no reason The Tupolev Ghost can't do the same with
what came next.
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Kerrang!
If the Tupolev Ghost fulfills the promise they currently hold, you
could be looking at the leaders of the next wave of hardcore punk.
God Is In The TV Zine
The Tupolev Ghost are, collectively, a prodigious talent.
The four-piece don’t need to rely on the bands of yore to drive their
music forward but, like Fugazi before them, the songs twist and turn in
erratic fashion, and yet somehow manage to leave an imprint in your
mind. Demos often restrain and hinder a band’s sound; The Tupolev Ghost
break out of these restraints and leave them a mangled wreck. Their
tightly wound riffing and projected screams should propel them into the
big leagues. 8/10.
Drowned In Sound
One of the most exciting new bands to come from the dark
depths of Cambridge, The Tupolev Ghost are like nothing you’ve heard
before. Not ploughing the same, safe furrows as all those other hyped
NME-branded bands, these guys are truly original.
The Line Of Best Fit
That off-kilter mathy flow will almost certainly attract Fugazi
comparisons, with a sound that harks back to the fractured later end of
late eighties US underground rock - though they slot more accurately
into that loose-knit UK sound shaped by the likes of Public Relations
Exercise, Moleck, and Meet Me In St. Louis. UK independent rock could
pretty soon have some new darlings to fawn over.
4/5
Rock Midgets
Aggressive, spikey, Shellac-meets-Fugazi rock.
NME
Sounding like throwbacks to classic era Dischord and Touch ’n’ Go, like
some kind of fistfight between Shellac and Fugazi. Potent, volcanic and
charged with a sinew snapping electrical atmosphere.
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