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Yahoo!It’s a rare treat to find a band that hooks you after only three songs, which may be part of the reason we love The Morgues. Made up of former S.B. dwellers David King and Danny Lewis—along with Stephen Grywalksi, Mathew Petronelli, and Amanda Tannen—the band now resides in N.Y.C., and are currently making tunes that fall somewhere between classic SoCal rock and something decidedly darker. Drawing on the sounds of post- and proto-punk icons like The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Velvet Underground, The Morgues’ short-but-sweet demo drips with promise. Opening track “Caterpillar” is a slow, soft, tambourine-colored exercise in shoegaze, while “Take My Watch I Say” is a stripped-down folk ditty driven by quiet acoustic guitars and Tom Waits-style speak-sing. But it’s the curiously titled “Song for Kirsten Dunst”—complete with waltzy drums and whistled breakdown—that makes us swoon and leaves us begging for more.
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