I was making my weekly run through the used bins at my favorite record store in the civilized world, Twisted Village and pulling out my usual pile of trial CDs to stand over the listening station with. Honest to God, they get the best stuff there as used/promo discards. It’s the best kept secret in the city. (So keep your traps shut, OK?) The debut CD by The Seconds, “Y”, jumped out at me immediately as something I might be interested in, so I tossed it into the pile.

Some photos of The Seconds performing live:

Christ almight fucking SHIT. This was just amazing. Like the early White Stripes with their hair on fire. The first song, SAY HEY pounded in and set the tone for the rest, so good that after ten seconds, I put the CD into the “take” pile, and it was the first one I pushed into the CD player in my truck on the ride home. Song after song after song, it was just amazing thing. Given The Seconds’ lineage, I am not sure why I was surprised that they are just an amazing band – formed by members of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Brian Chase) and The Ex-Models (Zach Lehrhoff) and Jeannie Kwon. I guess I didn’t realize it at the time, although, oddly enough, I immediately thought they reminded me of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. But more than that. The CD so deeply tapped into the energy that was so magical in the 1978-81 timeframe that it’s hard not to draw comparisons to bands like The Scars from the UK or our own forgotten local heroes Native Tongue. This is one revival I can definitely embrace…

So click on the links below for three scorching tracks from The Seconds’ 2005 debut CD, and then click on the images below for The Scars’ immense “Adultery” track (early 1979), and Native Tongue’s local legend “Speaking In Captions” (1981)…

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