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Rock 'n' roll diplomacy for Beijing's Carsick Cars

By Craig Mcintosh ( China Daily ) Updated: 2014-02-28 08:24:24

Rock 'n' roll diplomacy for Beijing's Carsick Cars

Carsick Cars' new album comes after setbacks, including member changes and accidents over the past five years. Provided to China Daily

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Carsick Cars have already built up a following overseas after several tours of the US, Europe and Australia, including as support for legendary groups such as Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr.

"A lot of people ask me when I go abroad, do the audiences react differently from in China?" Zhang says. "I would say not really. I think rock 'n' roll is an international language. The audience doesn't need to understand the lyrics. They can just feel the energy."

3 is the band's third album on the Maybe Mars label and comes after five years of frustrating setbacks, including line-up changes and two separate accidents resulting in Zhang suffering a broken leg (the last one while stage diving).

Rock 'n' roll diplomacy for Beijing's Carsick Cars

"It's definitely been a struggle," Zhang says, explaining that plans to record an album in 2010 were dashed when drummer Ben Ben quit the band. She had been recruited about a year earlier along with bassist He Fan to replace founding members Li Qing and Li Weisi, who left to form Snapline. Sun Heting-warmly known as Houzi or Monkey-was eventually drafted in to run the sticks in 2011.

With the line-up changes and the amount of time spent writing the songs (She Will Wait, for example, was written six years ago), the band says 3 is a departure from their previous work.

"The new line-up ... gave us more opportunities to try something new," Zhang says. "Houzi is a more-professional drummer ... and He Fan plays a lot more aggressively, so the whole sound structure changed and the way we're writing songs has changed."

To keep things fresh and ensure the creative juices flow, the trio occasionally performs as "B-side band" Sick Car Sick and each member has his own musical projects.

"It's very quick for us to write new stuff," Zhang says. "Whenever we try to rehearse old songs we come up with something new and just forget about the old stuff.

"I just hope everything goes well and we keep making music," he adds. "I don't want to wait for another five years to make an album."

 
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