The United Sons of Toil
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The United Sons of Toil – The Concept of the Urban Guerrilla
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Madison WI, United States (2006 – 2012)
The United Sons of Toil are a collective deeply rooted in the grinding noise and math rock that bubbled up from the Midwest during the mid ’90s. This is not to suggest that the Sons are a retro band in any sense, simply that the hoarse vocals, guitar damage, starts and stops, and sometimes-convoluted arrangements and time signatures hark back to a time when labels like Touch and Go, AmRep, and Dischord lorded over the indie-rock landscape.
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A number of other influences reared their ugly heads during the course of the first USoT record, 2007′s Hope Is Not A Strategy, notably the angular post-hardcore of outfits like Hoover and Unwound as well as the decidedly socialist bent of the sparse lyrics. Indeed, songs that compare family dynamics with political systems put the Sons squarely in the Gang-of-Four school of populist deconstruction.
Within less than a year, the Sons released their second full-length on May 24, 2008. Until Lions Have Their Historians, Tales of the Hunt Shall Always Glorify the Hunter is even more unrelenting than Hope with faster, more ferocious, songs and vitriolic diatribes about the exploitation of indigenous peoples. Lions billows in scope with wiry post-punk screes giving way to more expansive compositions, eventually culminating in epic layered guitarscapes.
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When the Revolution Comes, Everything Will Be Beautiful
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Hope is not a strategy
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Until Lions Have Their Historians, Tales of the Hunt Shall Always Glorify the Hunter
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The United Sons Of Toil/Lars Bang Larsen split 7"
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nisamtoja
great band great tour great memories!
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noisybishop
Fantastic noisy stuff http://sloucher.org/2012/05/01/the-united-sons-of-toil-when-the-revolution-comes-everything-will-be-beautiful/
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Naneykins
Good stuff.
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sukapapshew
I`ll listen to them all this winter...
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kid_nick
Охуенно
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waffleswaffles
Fanfuckingtastic
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cobforever
<3
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kidlukinhas
Alcoholism In The Former Soviet Republics. AWESOME SCREAM
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Nidurun
saw them in ljubljana last night, they blew my mind, the band and a little group of us maniacs have almost dehydrated as we lost a gallons of sweat, enjoying the passoniate, lo-fi oriented and faster version of this guys. this concert was even free of charge, there were about 30 people, but it was one of the best concerts in our city lately. i bought the latest album, enjoying it right now. different, more painful experience with some new horizons, equally brutally intimate and honest, but you've got to seem them live to complete the puzzles.
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midwestfaggot
the most deep , painful and inimitable work,thank you!
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lazerxbeast
Awesome stuff.
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awesomestrikes
they commie? :|
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MaThTech_Deer
brilliant music
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Jimsonisolation
I'd like to think bands like this will become big off the back of KEN mode, at least I hope so.
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_vinko_
great stuff ^^
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flanneljammies
Thanks Robert.
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autumnrising
Just picked up the CD on bandcamp. This is great stuff, guys.
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hofferthitonme
Killer show yesterday
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