Coriky

Ok I know everybody is getting crazy about it... and to be honest I am too!

(I was already super excited about it last october...)

YES, like baby Jesus on a cold night in a barn, we can say that it's finally here! 

CORIKY, the new band of the Evens duo (Ian McKaye, Amy Farina) and Joe Lally (Fugazi, The Black Sea, The Messthetics with Brendan Canty), has finally released its first LP!! (on Dischord of course).

The original release date was supposed to be end of March but because of the you-know-fucking-what crisis it was pushed back to the 12th of June, well at least it comes right on time for summer.

I am not going to go through the resumes of the three band members, everybody knows how impressive they are...

But maybe the less famous one is Amy's previous band, The Warmers from DC (of course), that I HIGHLY recommend...

But back to Coriky! 

So let's be clear, Coriky sounds closer to The Evens than to Fugazi, this is definitly The Evens + the bassist of Fugazi and not Half of Fugazi + the drummer of The Warmers.

Anyway whatever it is it is just insanely great!

Once again Amy and Ian are the ones holding up the vocals, both of them singing a lot, but the three friends are also singing a lot TOGETHER, a bit like in Fugazi some times yes, and it's cool. If you are familiar with Joe Lally solo work (and you should!), you know that he is not a bad singer even if it doesn't get out as powerful as what Ian and his wife can deliver. And that's probably why he doesn't sing much in Coriky, and that's also why Coriky sounds so much like The Evens...

At first I thought that Joe was indeed really discreet on this album, not adding so much to what could have been The Evens 4th album. But the more I listen to it (and I actually only listen to Coriky anymore), there is this cool and soft groove in the background that just makes it all rounder and softer... like a sunday afternoon in your warm living room, sitting in your favorite couch with a hot cup of tea in front of you...

As usual the lyrics are beautiful and super weird at the same time, full of this modern poetry vibe edging with total non-sense (BQM) that we got used to with Fugazi...

And as usual I don't care I just find myself singing and humming those songs after a few listens... Last Thing We Ever Wanted Is War...

Ian is taking advantage of the electric guitar to give birth to a few burst of Fugazi-like noisy "solo" (Inauguration Day, Shedileebop) that could sound weird in the quiet world of Coriky but actually don't...

It reminds us once again where those guys come from and that they have not forgotten anything of it...

And it ends with Woulda Coulda, a beautiful ballad, a quiet bonfire song, a 70s influenced happy ending... the perfect conclusion to another great album for the DC family...

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