One new band I've been digging a lot lately is the Pennsylvania quintet The Shackeltons, perhaps because their music posesses a sturdy spine and enough hip-swagger to make indie's sweatered set quake in their deck shoes. The band, whose debut album comes out today, has a relentlessness—even on slower numbers—that sounds as if the members have been putting their energy in storage, and letting it simmer for future unleashing on audiences. And they're a pretty commanding force live, where lead singer Mark Redding has a twitchy persona reminiscent of Ian Svenonius, flinging around flowers and demanding that the audience focus on the crazy noise being created by him and his bandmates. [MySpace / YouTube]
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Way to put the wrong clip in the RSS!!!
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