Last night I trekked down to the Bowery Ballroom late to see Mark Kozalek, who I had missed when he came through NY 2 years ago with Sun Kil Moon. He has done most of his work with the Red House Painters (they had a good, if somewhat fluffy song, on the Vanilla Sky soundtrack) but last night was quite solo. It was a good enough show, although he sang everything with whatever effect (reverb?) he uses on his mic on Ghosts of the Great Highway to give it that haunted, distant quality. Speaking of that album... check it out if you haven't... Glenn Tipton and Carry Me Ohio are excellent tracks... I think that the latter is one of the better songs of 2003. This show was a nice break; it seems that all I have been hearing are the Snow Patrol/Keane/ReindeerSection type heirs to the Coldplay empire or the Futureheads/Killers/Bloc Party dance backlash.
And finally, some other good shiznit that I've been listening to: Burning Spear, Manitoba (now Caribou), Animal Collective, Jorge Ben Jor.
So, as Mike would say........... yeah.
2 comments:
let's talk about Animal Collective, because I think they sound like they're trying to entertain 4 year olds...
All the throws of voice this way and that; it's retarded on purpose, i suppose.
I don't get it.
this is exactly the conversation i was looking for.
nevermind. you can't discuss tastes anyway.
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