Vetiver - Tight Knit

Hey all. 

Everyone ready for another great month of record club?

I'm taking the time to post the band bio (respectively stolen from  wikipedia of course) of the band this month. 

Look up the lyrics this month everyone!

Vetiver is an American folk band headed by songwriter Andy Cabic and often joined byDevendra Banhart, cellist Alissa Anderson, drummer Otto Hauser, violin Carmen Biggers, guitarists Kevin Barker and Sanders Trippe, bassist Brent Dunn.

Vetiver released their debut album in 2004 on the small indie folk label DiCristina. Since the album's release Vetiver has toured extensively, opening for and collaborating with Banhart andJoanna Newsom. Before moving to San Francisco, Cabic was a member of the Greensboro,North Carolina indie rock band The Raymond Brake who released some records on the now defunct Simple Machines label. The band shared the bill with Vashti Bunyan on her US tour in early 2007.

The band is named after the grass, vetiver. Their music has been described as 'surreal', 'lullingly pleasant', 'tender and accessible' and 'quirky and warm'.

So I watched that new show Southland, or rather, it's on right now, and guess what song came on, Record Clubbers? Fake Empire.

First ever club meeting

The National - Boxer

Background: From Ohio, now live in Brooklyn. Are playing at pitchfork. 

1. Fake Empire:

A little U2-ey when it kicks in. Great trumpet. 

2. Mistaken for Strangers:

INTERPOL! Good lyrics.

3. Brainy:

Breena likes. Beat drives you forward: Gwen. Dictionary reference. Creepy but cool. A bit 'o the cure.

4. Squalor Victoria:

Reem overwhelmed by strings. Turned on Blondie to divert emotion. Steve likes the the science words. 

5. Green Gloves

Nice break, pleasant guitar rift. Emotive. Emoticon = :-/. 

6. Slow show:

Standout track: Nick. Lean against the wall the wall leans away: feeling drunk. 

7. Apartment story:

Interesting fuzz bass. Pin your flower on: thinking of prom. Use of repeating words is done well.  Tell by the drummer they are probably pretty tight live. Tight = together.

8. Start a war:

Police show strings. Strings that ask you a question in the beginning and keep asking.

9. Guestroom:

Maybe just more of the same. Post rock - 80's feel.

10. Racing like pro:

Breena says boring, Molly say a cool line is in there. Glowing young ruffian. Kind of cooling down the album.

11. Ada:

Not sure what this one is about. 

... we stopped talking about the album. 

Overall:

Solid, if artsy album. What does the if clause mean?

Onamatapoetic <-- Steve's term

William Burp... invented the burp? According to Steve.

A whole 'nother thing... where did this originate? -Steve

Wikipedia, not accurate. But is Steve's life. 

A long album for this genre.

Very remindative album, not preposterously original.

Survey questions:

First concert: 

Swen : J Smith Christian rocker

Reem: NKOTB

Breena: ETW Christian rapper

lost carppy interconnect connection and some of my post. Publishing... good month!

The album...

Anyone have preliminary thoughts about Boxer?

Who has bought pitchfork tickets? I'm going to get them soon. Two days or all three? Not sure..

Metric - Fantasies

Also streamable, Metric's new one: Fantasies. I haven't listened yet but I'm about to. I've been looking forward to this one!

http://www.chromewaves.net/2009/03/stream-metrics-fantasies/

MP3 'Distortions' the New Vinyl 'Warmth'?

O'Reilly Radar has an interesting article about how during blind tests, people tend to prefer the sound of mp3 over uncompressed audio. This seems to be completely analogous to the cultural preference that developed toward the audio effects of vinyl.

Mirah (a)spera

(a)spera, the new Mirah album is streamable... I was going to live blog through my first listen but I got bored with that after the first three tracks (bored with live blogging, not with the music!) It feels pretty good to hear something new from Mirah, who hasn't released an album since...early 2000something (C'Mon Miracle). I don't usually read Pitchfork but they gave her a good review, if that means anything to ya.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12809-aspera/