These Immortal Souls

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These Immortal Souls were an indie rock band with Australian musicians. Most of the band acted in Europe - in the late 1980s and early 1990s .

history

The band consisted of Rowland S. Howard (vocals and guitar), Genevieve McGuckin (keyboards), Epic Soundtracks (drums) and Harry Howard (bass). These Immortal Souls were founded in 1987 in West Berlin when Genevieve McGuckin teamed up with the three (ex) members of Crime & the City Solution .

These Immortal Souls released their first album Get Lost, (Don't Lie!) In 1987 and toured Europe, America and Australia. Two more albums Marry Me (1990) and I'm Never Gonna Die Again (1992) followed. In 1994 drummer Craig Williamson and guitarist Spencer P. Jones joined the band. In this line-up, they contributed the song You Can't Unring a Bell to the 1994 Tom Waits tribute album Step Right Up .

In 1995 Rowland S. Howard, Harry Howard and Genevieve McGuckin returned to Australia and occasionally appeared there as These Immortal Souls. The band's last concert took place on July 23, 1998 at the Greyhound Hotel in Melbourne - with Lydia Lunch as support. The drummer Epic Soundtracks (brother of Nikki Sudden ) had already died in November 1997 under unknown circumstances in his apartment in London . Rowland S. Howard died on December 30, 2009 of liver cancer .

style

The band's style can be described as somber (some say it lightening up over time) blues-soaked indie rock. The American magazine The Bob attested that the band had a range from “punk to blues to 1940s ballads” . The term “flawless creepy rock”, which was used in the Musikexpress , was justified with the “refined balance between captivating unorthodox improvisations and lead-heavy chords” and its spherical, goose bumps-inducing background. In the music magazine Spex Jutta Koether went precisely to the playing technique of the bandleader one: "At the same run chords , intricate sounds and unheard variations of his style either his singing contrary , or they run apart . It never sounds traditionally harmonious, but it often sounds very elegant. It has nothing to do with noise, with letting go of noise. There are precisely designed, located verhakende sent employed dissonances , throwing themselves against the simple melody parts "the blues, she added later still on, have you -. With their punk / New Wave - attitude to the brink of - underground out .

In Melody Maker Rowland S. Howard explained the gloomy mood of the debut album with its inner world of experience consisting of obsessions . Five years later he promised the Sub Line that the times when his songs "emerged from the subconscious" were a thing of the past. He now wants to write simple and cheerful songs.

As preferences, not necessarily as role models, Rowland S. Howard cited the bands The Stooges and Velvet Underground and as individual artists Lee Hazlewood , Alex Chilton and "if he really plays the really noisy guitar" John Lennon . Epic soundtracks named the Shangri-Las , Bow Wow Wow and the Slits .

Discography

Albums

  • 1987: Get Lost (Don't Lie)
  • 1990: Marry Me
  • 1992: I'm Never Gonna Die Again

Singles

  • 1987: Marry Me (Lie! Lie!)
  • 1992: King of California

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Thomas Weiland: These Immortal Souls. I'm never gonna die again . In: Sub Line . Indie-Progressive Rock & Pop Magazine. November 1992, Sub Line CDs + LPs, p. 58 .
  2. ↑ Kiki Borchardt: These Immortal Souls. "I'm Never Gonna Die Again" . In: Zillo . Music magazine. Independent / individual. November 1992, Plattenmarkt, p. 47 .
  3. ^ Karen Schoemer: These Immortal Souls . In: The BOB Magazine . Special Australian Edition - 1988. No. 34 , 1988, pp. 20th f .
  4. ↑ (efha): These Immortal Souls. I'm never gonna die again . In: Musikexpress / Sounds . No. 444 , January 1993, Untergrund, p. 74 .
  5. ↑ a b Jutta Koether: These Immortal Souls. When melody comes in, they go nuts . In: Spex . Music at the time. March 1988, p. 14th ff .
  6. ^ David Stubbs: Immortal Coils. From the Splinters of the Birthday Party and Crime and the City Solution Come These Immortal Souls and a Debut Album 'Get Lost (Don't Lie)'. David Stubbs Meets the Mask behind the Panic, Pain and Pleasure of Moonshine . In: Melody Maker . No. 45/1987 , November 7, 1987, pp. 10 f .
  7. ↑ Thomas Weiland: These Imortal Souls. Immortal animated . In: Sub Line . Indie-Progressive Rock & Pop Magazine. (December / January, 1992/1993), pp. 30 .

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