Dinosaur Pile-Up are a trio from Leeds who REALLY like grunge. We mean they REALLY like it. They like it so much that they probably start their day with a big bowl of Grunge Flakes, and possibly a banana.
A grunge banana.
But they only like the really GOOD bits of grunge ? that is the driving riffs, muscular drumming and basslines so powerful that they rearrange your organs through your ears.
They?ve no use for the hairy, plaid-shirted angst that comes with most of the genre ? so they've just thrown that part out, and replaced it with a lo-fi, low-slung, playful approach, which should be obvious from their name (they're named after the T-Rex fight in Peter Jackson?s King Kong), the name of their first EP (The Most Powerful EP in the Universe!!), and the fact that one of their songs is about being set upon by a gang of cats (Cat Attack!!).
The first single from their new album, ‘Growing Pains’, is called ‘Mona Lisa’.
It's a hard-working, knuckleheaded loop of a song that grinds a groove in your skull that will have you nodding along in no time.
You won't mind that the song doesn't really go anywhere, because the pleasure?s in the journey.
Here?s the video for Mona Lisa. YOU?RE WELCOME:
For more: Dinosaur Pile-Up on MySpace
Mithaearon says
They are not named after the T-rex fight, they are named after the bit where the brontosauruses are stampeding and the front one falls over and trips all the overs causing them to roll down to hill and erm, pile up.