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ROCK: Punk, ROCK: Math Rock



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Playback Magazine - The Transmissions deliver a debut album that is full of eccentric, eerie rock and eludes every pigeonhole I tried to squeeze it into. The songs are rife with jazzy, kinetic guitar work and wailing vocals, at times bordering on a new wave sound. For some reason this just seems like music for a David Lynch film

OC Weekly - Listening to their songs, you get the feeling the trio doesnât just aim to be âdifferent.â Instead, they seem to prefer rocking out nerd-core style, like a mellowed At the Drive-In or Rush on Klonopin. In fact, you might just get addictedâI was transported to a desert where the echoes of another time surrounded me. And I wasnât even stoned!

LooseRecord NY - Once the band is about to begin, the stage has transformed into what looks like the inside of my computer. For the next 45 minutes The Transmissions put on a show that reinforces why I describe them as the best band to see in L.A. There are moments of riotous, memorable guitar riffs that transition into hypnotic bass lines, haunting vocals and the perpetual heartbeat of drums that eventually swells each song back into splendorous fervor. Christian Biel, lead vocals and guitar, has remarkable stage presence. They succeed at what many bands strive to achieve, but fall short of; The art of the spectacle. To take raw, uncontrolled energy, contain it just at the point before all hell breaks loose and turn it into something inherently beautiful.

Smother Zine - âOver Wiresâ is a superb debut for Los Angeles-based outfit The Transmissions. Vocally it can be a throw back to David Byrne and the Warholinâ of â80âs alternative rock bands. Chord changing and poignant distortion is the territory of the guitars that can be as loud as Sonic Youth but as melodic as the Cure.

Grave Concern - Christian Biel's vocal work sometimes has a timbre remotely reminiscent of, and a slight warble a la, PIL-era John Lydon, while the music ranges from bouncy, rhythmically interesting alt rock to moody, guttural ballads to punchy bass and noisy guitar recalling Bauhaus's more diverse later work.

Performer Magazine - The Transmissions have a large, dreamy sound that isn't afraid to explore the far reaches of their musical talents or imaginations. They have the market cornered on eliciting any repressed emotions one may be dealing with.

Screaming Bloody Mess - Stop start/herky jerky indie rock that brings to mind early Modest Mouse, (who I bet they are tired of being compared to), but then maybe with a slightly more new wave punky feel. donât be surprised if their next release gets onto a bigger indie, something like Merge, perhaps.

Delusions of Adequacy - At times, California's darling The Transmissions strut and pout as if they were from DC, kicking it with the roster of Dischord Records, and at other times they freak out like they were born from the same scene as Modest Mouse. The group manages to shake off mere emulation status with some dark and moody rock songs of their own that are more unique than imitation. I'd keep an ear out for them to move on to bigger and better things.

Indieworkshop - ...And now I have to backtrack. Because I listened to this song again. And now I like it. Whatâs up with that? I guess it boils down to the concept that good things sometimes take a while to grow on you. It just slowly sweeps on in until youâre like?YEAH! Iâm feeling this shit. Itâs totally kicking in. can we get more of this? Splendid Zine - Whether you call their sound slowcore, math rock, post-rock or anything else, it's clear that The Transmissions have a strong vision for their future.

Stylus Magazine (U.K.) - Their album seems like itâs been smuggled out of a Sudanese prison by a socioethnomusicologist for Amnesty International

L'Erba Della Strega (Italy) - (with bad translation provided by babelfish) These compositions explode in the chaos more total without forgetting the melodic approach, while a voice modeled after John Lydon singing the songs of Fugazi while they covered The Cure. The album explodes within a kaleidoscope of emotions... Beautiful, terribly beautiful. This I can say of this disc: In an historical period in which pompous names of the old guard are pulled in by dance new wave post punk in order to now describe the new alternatives rock (but alternative to what) , groups as the Transmissions remind us where it would have to be returned indeed for having the spirit of those classic sounds.