Push-Pull :: 3EP :: Joyful Noise Recordings

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Push-Pull
3

Catalog Number: jnr19
Release Date: 11/06/07

CD + MP3: $7

MP3: $4

Track List:

Brain Fever
Sandford Eubanks
You Are Dead
Indiana
Mike And Bob
Union Songs

In a universe of infinite bounds, a band of Mikes (Bridavsky, Hoggatt, Notaro) have the sheer talent and purpose of finding the non-existent edge. The Bloomington, Indiana three piece stick out like a sore thumb in a world of binary song structures and stale uninspired musical vision. Immediate sounds and complete obliviousness to hipster rock simultaneously offend, seduce, repel, and violate the music snobs of our time. Imagine Cream's pop structures arranged for the Mahavishnu Orchestra, probing areas untouched by The Wipers, King Crimson, Big Star, or Shellac.

Prepare for a space walk or the 1918 flu: Hosts and humans, books and films, love, events predating the big bang, flight (the paranoia of it), empty hands and sex, fire, power, and water are all developed into mantras fused within voice, electricity, and air particles. The sonics become tightly wedged between a rock and the roll. Fresh and piping hot, but hard and compact, the direct and spastic onslaught descending from contemporaries 30 years previous leaves room for modern rock absurdity. For better or worse, they look to no one for approval. This Indiana trinity are elemental; they dig deeper and Push-Pull harder. And we here at Joyful Noise say, "Thank Yahweh."

"Despite what you may have read elsewhere, Bloomington's Push-Pull sound nothing like Shellac, Big Black, or the Wipers. They do, however, write some bizarrely good songs, many of which are included on 3... a quirky band comfortable enough to be as strange and nerdy as they want to be... They're really weird. And Really great."
Skyscraper Magazine

"Like Ian MacKaye fronting The Descendants... yea, that damn good."
Ghettoblaster

"I can't get enough of this disc!!! This is an abrupt, violent and eerie noise rock album that swings its arms without looking and stage dives into an empty crowd--it hits the ground and keeps kicking."
Evil Needles

"A cross between the spazztastic Transformer Lootbag, and aggro Polvo, and Haymarkey Riot... a blast."
Copper Press

"This is some glorious noise that happens to groove on a funky math-hardcore axis... It's the final execution that's most impressive. These boys take solid ideas and kick them out as impressionistic works. Loud, wild and somewhat improbably technically superb. I want to know where these guys are going."
Aiding & Abetting

"Thank you God! Pissed off indie rock for fans of Shellac and The Wipers! Dirty primal tunes that don't go past the 2 1/2 minute mark!"
Tastes Like Chicken

"Push-Pull is an American trio in full tuning with the recent escapes of Joyful Noise: noise-rock flavored with intuitions post-punk. The six tracks of the ep slide violent as ready bombs to explode to you in face, fast like ready snakes to sonagli attacking, dispensing moments to you of united polish madness to orecchiabili hooks for at least little orthodox a final result. A disc that puo to solleticare the interest of fan of the commistioni between noise and the Indians."
Kronic (Finland)

"Push-Pull delivers a one-two punch with ... their crazed brand of experimental post-punk, indie art rock, and progressive pop. On "3", their songs are usually quick (only their last track is longer than two minutes) and subversive. This is rock and roll for the attention deficit disorder generation."
Smother

"Push-Pull remind me of the late 80's/early 90's angular, indie rock that was coming out on Amphetamine Reptile Records. This band (made up of three guys named Mike) seems hell-bent on wreaking as much havoc as possible in as little time as humanly possible... They sound like a condensed version of Steel Pole Bathtub. The 3 Ep is short, edgy and to the point. Two minute songs seem to be all it takes for these guys to get their point across, but it works. 9 out of 10"
Sonic Frontiers

"A collection of six songs and a bonus track, the disc is stewing with energy, taut yet flexible, and fun while retaining a polished-raw sound."
InTake

"3 was born out of three days of recording... What they ended up with was rock 'n' roll gold...Each song sprints to its finish. Guitars zigzag and tumble over themselves within the musical mad dashes the band creates, sometimes slowing long enough to channel heavy metal gods with riffs that bellow and groan. While the lyrics are sparse and often repeditive, fans will scream along with the band as they're overtaken by the manic energy Push-Pull delivers."
Nuvo

"The only thing missing from this loud and proud of it EP is a promo pack of migraine tablets. Because when one of the three Mikes that make up this rock trio from Indiana pleads for a drink at the conclusion, you'll be needing those little pink pills. For such a vicious display of guitar shredding and blood-curdling screaming, this is damn assured stuff."
Tasty Fanzine

"Coarse, Scratchy rock in the vein of Big Black."
Razorcake

"The problem with this record is Push-Pull's apparent lack of self-awareness. What they do best - tight but obtuse hi-octane rev-ups - they do least, and for the shortest amount of time."
Foxy Digitalis

"This college-hooked trio (Bloomington, IN) is a band of Mikes (Bridavsky, Hoggatt, Notaro) who bring the San Diego noisecore adventure to the plains of the Midwest on the EP 3. Push-Pull aren't throngs of random screaming crap, but more like if indie rock fell into a bucket of noise."
Exoduster

"Is there an element of everything Ian MacKaye has done, combined with the furious manual dexterity of Shellac of North America (whose Bob Weston mastered this album)? The Wipers? Big Star? Check please. We got a winner here... The crashing cymbals and fluid bass grooves of these songs, bashed out relentlessly for the duration of the album, is juxtaposed with crunchy guitars with ample distortion and feedback... 3 is ready to entertain. Do you have your PBR pulled out and ready to swig?"
Audiversity.com

"Push-Pull's condensed EP is a masterful collection of songs built on the back of the drenched post-punk guitar and fuzzed out bass of college radio yesteryear. Push-Pull packs each song with a wall of crunching guitars and off kilter allusions to lost classic "Death Bed: The Bed That Eats," the standout being "Brain Fever," with its pulsating bass line and some nice and mathy guitar/bass interplay on the bridge."
Bloomington Scene

"...like a rather inspired combination of Fugazi's indie, post punk aggression and some of the finer examples of the early Chicago Touch and Go Records, indie scene which was best typified by bands like Shellac and Big Black. They rip through these song with an alarming sense of urgency and yet they still manage to get in what they have to say."
Sea of Tranquility

"Noisy but songful post-punk... fresh one-minute blasts of dissonant but appealing alternarock."
Read Junk

"Indianapolis trio who are probably not Peyton Manning's favorite band. They bring the noise and out enough twists n' curves into the whole mess that you'll be dizzy by then end."
Dagger

"...acrobatic rhythms, serrated guitars and manic vocal gymnastics reminiscent of Touch & Go bands like Shellac and The Jesus Lizard."
LEO Weekly

"Crunchy guitar, striking base, and interesting use of vocal instrumentation... Overall the instrumentation and vocals are great, my only wish for this album is that I could hear just a little bit more than the roughly 20 minutes of performance I was treated to."
1340 Mag