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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
YOU'RE ONLY CONFIDENT IN YOUR INSECURITIES
Sybris
Sybris
Flameshovel : 2005
[Buy It]
DANCE 2
Kiss Me Deadly
Misty Medley
Alien8 : 2005
[Buy It]
TALK TALK TALK TALK
Love is All
9 Times That Same Song
What's Your Rupture : ???
currently unreleased, forthcoming from What's Your Rupture Records
My devotion to Life Without Buildings is a little scary (I won't post them here, even though they're the backbone of this post, because I've done so before), and ever since I fell in love with their only album, I've been pursuing the second coming like a wild-eyed apocalyptic in sandwich boards. While each of these bands diverge from LWB in significant ways, they definitely scratch the itch and I love them all. I still don't know what it is about chirpy, helium-infused female vocals and floaty guitars that exerts such a powerful thrall over my imagination. Nostalgia for a time when post-rock was more dreamy and cerebral than abrasive and pretentious? (For a crash course in classic post-rock, check out Nitsuh Abebe's amazing Pitchfork article.)
Sybris is a Chicago-based band that's maybe a little more '90s alterna-rock than post-rock, with their crashing Corgan-baiting guitars. Their self-titled debut was a shot-in-the-dark promo grab that turned into an enduring affection for me; after seeing them perform to basically just me at the Local 506 in Chapel Hill a few weeks ago, I came home even more enthralled and seriously crushing on Angela Mullenhour (also pictured above). I happen to know that Sybris doesn't like being compared to Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but I can't help mentioning the affinity between Sybris and the "Maps" side of that band, although I mean it in a good way - I love YYYs too.
Montreal's Kiss Me Deadly is on the always-interesting Alien8 (which also puts out Les Georges Leningrad, who have certain songs I could squeeze into this post if I wanted to push the envelope). The vocals are like a more strident version of LWB, with all of those great little chirrups and hitches - the singer actually sounds like a slide whistle at times. Of all three, this is the band that hews closest to classic post-rock, deploying moon and space tropes to drive the point home, and suffused with that all-important silvery gleam.
I don't really know shit about Love is All except that they're completely awesome, and that their record, when it comes out on sleeper-hit NY label What's Your Rupture, probably won't get as much shine as it deserves. "Talk Talk Talk Talk" is a beautifully messy rabble of horns and dopplering Gang of Four guitars, breathy shrieks, moonwalking bass and spirit-week call-and-response.
In the end, the appeal of LWB and all these bands is their blend of smartitude, listenability and relentless endearingness (whew, ugly sentence). They mince and coquetteishly eyelid-flutter right into your heart. If you haven't heard any of these, I promise you'll fall in love with at least one of them. In fact, we here at Moistworks are so confident about the quality of our product that, if you aren't completely satisfied with your song after 30 days, you can send it back for a full refund, no questions asked!
All refund requests must include proof of purchase, original packaging, social security number, credit card information (for verification purposes only), inseam measurement, mother's maiden name and detailed description of one's deepest existential traumas, i.e. the conviction that the universe is essentially unfriendly (or at least apathetic) and that existence is fundamentally absurd. Some restrictions may apply, offer not valid in Lichtenstien.
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posted by Brian
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