Barkmarket is tagged as: noise rock, post-hardcore, alternative rock, grunge, stoner rock Barkmarket was a rock music group formed in New York City in 1987. Personnel were singer/guitarist and main songwriter Dave Sardy, bass guitarist John Nowlin and drummer Rock Savage. Barkmarket’s music was usually loud and aggressive, touching on many styles (most prominently including heavy metal, hardcore punk and noise rock), but not resting definitely in any one genre. Critic Stewart Mason wrote that the band “can at times be frustratingly difficult to pin down, but their best work has a noisy, rattling power.”[1] There were also odd touches that demonstrated an experimental edge: the eerie banjo and tape loops on “(Radio Static)” (from Gimmick), and the nearly delta blues acoustic slide guitar on “Visible Cow” (from L. Ron). Sardy’s ragged, proto-screamo vocals usually offered bizarre lyrics that were at once evocative and absurd, and rarely without a menacing undercurrent: “I bought a handgun made out of glass/I cut a hole in the side of a wild ass” (“Visible Cow”); critic Ted Alvarez wrote, Sardy’s distended poetry often has a dark humor about it; lines like “I opened all your mail” (“Feed Me”) and “I got a game/it won’t take long/we’ll list ... Read More About Barkmarket Biography... Send Barkmarket ringtones to your cell |
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