Alamo Race Track are a dutch indie band I discovered in the summer. A mish-mash of loads of 2000s indie, their over-earnest lyrics and attempts to cover a little too much ground are their biggest failings - but their tunes have some great rhythms and, at their best, they sound like an artier Strokes or an Of Montreal with balls.First up is Northern Territory (complete with amateur video - it's ...
Alamo Race Track are a dutch indie band I discovered in the summer. A mish-mash of loads of 2000s indie, their over-earnest lyrics and attempts to cover a little too much ground are their biggest failings - but their tunes have some great rhythms and, at their best, they sound like an artier Strokes or an Of Montreal with balls.First up is Northern Territory (complete with amateur video - it's ...
It's a weird thing for a band to be better known internationally than they are at home ? witness the success of the Scissor Sisters in Europe, or British classic-rockers Bush in the USA. The same holds true for Amsterdam's Alamo Race Track, who are quickly becoming bigger abroad than they are in their native Holland.It's all come pretty fast for the foursome - consisting of Ralph Mulder (deep J...