If This Cockroach Doesn't Die, I Will, by Pairs

If This Cockroach Doesn't Die, I Will

by Pairs

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The Ultimate China Rock Music Collectors Item.

The Amazing Pairs From Shanghai Create China's First Punk / Lo Fi Masterpiece Giving An Indication What It's Really Like To Live In A Hyper Industrializing Chinese City In The 21st Century. This Album Is To Shanghai What Unknown Pleasures Is To Manchester.

A Double Vinyl LP In A Proper Old School Gatefold Sleeve and Ltd To Only 500 Copies. This Is A Must For Collectors Of The Different

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1.	Permanent Resident 03:24	buy track
2.	Cat Food 02:30	buy track
3.	A Surgeon At A Hospital In Shanghai Severed A Nerve In My Groin 04:31	buy track
4.	Cosplay Girls 04:54	buy track
5.	Mean Buzz 01:36	buy track
6.	Aquarium 06:20	buy track
7.	You've Wasted All Your Time 01:38	buy track
8.	Fitch Beats 05:44	buy track
9.	If You Can Do Better, Why Don't You Do Better ? 01:48	buy track
10.	Part Songs 02:17	buy track
11.	Pre-Educated 03:04	buy track
12.	Slambourine Man 02:54	buy track
13.	Front Door 02:19	buy track
14.	You Never Came Alive 02:56	buy track
15.	Four Mouths 03:42	buy track
16.	Wil, Please Move To Shanghai 04:03	buy track
17.	Don't Fly My Body Back 07:28	buy track

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A big part of the sound, slipping from yowl to howl to a sung/spoken thing that reminds us of the Fall or maybe Art Brut. The music this time around is similarly noisy, the drums dense and tribal, the guitar super distorted, the riffs pretty simple, but woozy and jagged, Pairs locking into some seriously tranced out passages, that almost sound like caveman This Heat.
AQUARIUS (SANFRANCISCO)

Comparisons to The White Stripes or Royal Trux would be easy, but not really accurate, as the songs on Cockroach have a lot more in common with Big Black, Shellac, The Fall and 400 Blows. Xiao Zhong definitely suffers from “swelling itching brain,” a condition that forces him to rant and rave about every little thing that annoys him in life, creating a persona that rests somewhere between Steve Albini, John Lydon and Mark Smith. His drumming is a perfect synthesis of punk rock and post-punk, straightforward one measure, all dancing hi-hat disco the next. F’s guitar is simple, but effective, a primal wall of distorted bar chords and power chords that perfectly augment the frenzied rhythms. It’s punk rock the way it should be – loud, snarling and pissed-off
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released December 27, 2013

All Songs Written & Performed By Pairs
Recorded And Mixed By Horses / Shanghai
Mastered By Frank At The Carvery - London

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