Okay, so sometimes I do the new-music Monday thing, sometimes I do old-school Friday's, but this was just too good to wait.
I heard an interview with Elvis Perkins who's currently playing the South by Southwest festival down in The Great State of Texas. Here's the upbeat song, Doomsday:
And here's the NPR interview, Elvis Perkins: Out of the 'Dirge'
Shampoo - Elvis Perkins In Dreamland - Elvis Perkins
2 comments:
How is this music "classified"? It sounds like a group of musical friends or brothers, with an interesting array of instruments, playing together after some uniting event--in this case, perhaps a funeral. While I recognize that this is a band in an intentional performance, it feels (and looks, in the video setting and production) as if they are trying for the natural unrehearsed sounds of friendship, even empathy, that would accompany such an impromptu jam. I really like the accessability of their music.
I think part of that sound may be coming from the improvised space, often space itself lends a feel to the sound (the recording from the album sounds less spontaneous and more polished) but you're right, very accessible, I have been listening to this non stop for the last two days.
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