Video: I loved Tune Yards at Music Hall of Williamsburg
I’d traded my Animal Collective tickets for tickets to see Beirut at Music Hall of Williamsburg, and as far as live performances with tribal beats and yelps go, I really think I got the better deal out of it. I’m sure people compared Merrill Garbus of Tune Yards (who opened) to Bjork, and I suppose you silly indie listeners will greet any white musician with face paint and African beats with some amount of caution, and you might be right to, but Merrill isn’t fooling around, kids. From the moment she started layering tracks for the intro song, “Hatari”, she was 100% awesome. She was Rokia Traore meets Panda Bear. I’d seen her play with Sister Suvi once, and I didn’t think much of it then. But her own set last night was better than any Animal Collective show I’ve been to, and if Avey Tare and gang deployed a band of percussionists, they just might sound as convincing live.
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