Posts about Pattern Is Movement
Not having fallen in love with her new album, Actor, I decided to catch St. Vincent live to see if it would help me appreciate the new music better. I concluded that I prefer the older work after all: Marry Me is a better album because it’s a better showcase of essential songwriting might, which gets lost, or at least takes a back seat, in the newer heavily-produced aesthetic; and St. Vincent the solo act (just Annie on stage) is a more interesting live act because once again I’m a fan of the essentials, the bare minimum that takes an awesome flight under the right hands and the right mind.
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Where I list some of my favorite band names, based on the aesthetics of the words, the rhythm they create and the images they furnish. Bands for whom 2008 was a notable year in the advancement of their career were considered.
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The Annex: Moenie & Kitchi is Gregory and the Hawk. They’re set to go on at 10:15 after Attached Hands and Cassorla // Cake Shop: Dream Bitches are friends Yoko Kikuchi and Ann Zakaluk, whose latest album is this year’s Coke and Spiriters from Recommend if You Like Records. They’re playing with Bugs in the Dark, about whom L Magazine wrote back in December, “Bugs in the Dark are doing their best to fill the void left by Sleater Kinney and the Pixies (unless the Pixies are actually together again, in which case, meh). Suprisingly, they’re doing a bang-up job.” To this day the band wonders the signifance of that meh. What does it mean? Also playing is Dave End, whose track “And By Queen” I quite like, and Sway.
More bands and lots of mp3’s after the jump. Also, which famous band did I sight this morning?
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