In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull (Wichita), the follow-up to 2009’s enormously successful Ignore The Ignorant, represents a physical return to the Cribs’ original band-of-Brit-brothers format—Gary Jarman on bass/vocals, his twin Ryan on guitar/vocals and younger sibling Ross on drums—after the departure of the massively influential Johnny Marr. The Smiths guitarist added sinewy guitar and a palpable sense of maturation to the Cribs’ already potent sound, and given the new LP’s blend of visceral raw-punk energy and full-bodied pop melodicism, Marr’s two-year tenure with the band left an obvious mark on it creative approach. Gary will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our recent feature on the Cribs.
Jarman: This is our favorite bar in Portland, Ore. We would go here every night after a hard days basement-demoing for In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull. I guess that means that a lot of the lyrics for the album got written in here too … It’s a cool bar that makes a good whiskey & coke and has a digital jukebox. Every night we would play Innuendo by Queen in its entirety and then choose as many deep cuts from our youth as we could; we made it a game to try and surprise the others with the most obscure tracks. We had some really good times there.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97gNPRa5a0
