Addiction
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Record Label: Circular Records
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The Filthy Tongues were skulking in the shadows making their guitar, drums and bass snarl like the Scottish musical cousins of The Dirty Three, before meeting this American girl in 2004 coaxed them back into the limelight.
"We were playing a gig in London," recalls bassist Fin Wilson.
"I thought I met her in a psychiatric hospital," ponders guitarist Martin Metcalfe.
"That was it," recalls Derek Kelly, drummer. "Aye it was, because you thought having a therapist in the band might be a useful thing in the future."
However it happened, Stacey Chavis from Portland, Oregon, became Isa with The Filthy Tongues.
Having in-house therapy on call must have seemed like a good idea after the trio's experiences as the heart and lungs of Goodbye Mr Mackenzie, a band who ricocheted round record labels narrowly missing a high score in Europe, before evolving into Angelfish. That pushed backing singer Shirley Manson to the fore, and the new group made a dent in the U.S. college and independent charts.
Butch Vig came a calling for a singer to front his new band Garbage just when constant American touring was threatening to gut Angelfish anyway.
"If Shirley had been that good a singer in the beginning then I would never have become the front man, and just stayed playing guitar," insists Metcalfe.
Stacey has spent a lifetime being asked to join various bands, but always said no, because the confidence just was not there.
But on hearing The Filthy Tongues, she said yeah, as one of their songs would have it. Demos win competitions on Radio 1 for weeks on end, and commercial radio also wants in on the act.
Isa and The Filthy Tongues complete work on a debut album - Addiction - and sign to Circular Records. It will be preceded by a single, I'll Do What I Want, before being released on May 1, 2006.
A show in Edinburgh on the penultimate day of 2005 announces the band is open for business, trading surf punk guitar licks and a raw analogue
attitude. Isa And The Filthy Tongues pack a big dirty kiss.
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Addiction
author: Mark Fraser
Wonderful songs played with passion this cd will take you there...............
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Harder than GMM
author: L*A*
As an old Goodbye Mr Mackenzie fan, I just had to get this CD when I saw it. This is different than GMM, less simple & less traditional alterno, kind of more bluesy, and not as easy... It has some of the same angry/dark feel from GMM in it and it is closer to the later GMM than their earlier music. Fully recommend.
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Worthy and righteous
author: Riff
Attitude, aggression, ambient angst. Fatalistic sarcasm meets psychedelic mysticism in an echo chamber where the wreckage of Angelfish claws at their cage bars, making eerie metallic screeches. If only they can escape...
War dances for the modern steppenwolf, growled grimly by his beloved she-bitch.
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Brash, noisy songs of urban despair
author: Bluesbunny
Way back in the eighties we liked Goodbye Mr Mackenzie. One of the few underrated bands out come out of Glasgow at a time when most bands in Glasgow were overrated, it pleased us to find out that most of them have survived as the Filthy Tongues. Adding Stacy Chavis on vocals, they keep fighting the good fight against mediocrity.
Our Stacey is a feisty woman without a doubt - "Finder F*ckers" and "I'll Do What I Want" bear witness to that. Sung with a mixture of anguish and anger, she exudes attitude that is matched by the fiery guitar licks of Martin Metcalfe. "Celebration Girl" likewise fights its way out of the speakers on the way to freedom. There were some radio friendly moments too with "How Many Days?" but we are never going to be in fluffy bunny territory.
Brash and noisy, this is an album that is unlikely to be classed as easy listening. It has a dark, twisted urban feel to it. Maybe this is what despair sounds like when set to music. Worthy of recommendation to all of us who have found out that life is not a bowl of cherries.
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