First, St. Patty's Month was not as horrible as you might think. I was in Old City (oof), which should have been real real yucky. There were hardly any green hats, hardly any beads, etc. Negatively good: the absence of obnoxiousness. Phew.
Second, more positively good: Neil had some Irish friends in town; these friends have a band; this band has good songs (at Rhapsody) . They're called Butterfly Explosion (Myspace).
We went to the Khyber, which I love but hadn't been to in a minute. You know that High Lifes (High Lives?) are only $2.50 there? Downstairs even (upstairs beers are always crazy cheap). I'll be darned.
Butterfly Explosion on YouTube
Butterfly Explosion sound like M83 with less synthesized business (as Neil accurately stated). They do have a keyboard, but it's more for an extra layer of sound, not for beeps and bloops.
Or like Mogwai, but less often loud. 2 or 3 songs got 'Mogwai loud'...
...this would be an explosion, in Mogwai mode:
...
but the bulk built and waned without ever making a huge crashing. So mellower than Mogwai, but not crybaby-mellow. Just more restrained, like so...
Most of the songs didn't have words, which is a strong merit. Songs don't need words! If you require your music to have words- a non-musical element, of course- I think there may be something wrong with you.
There is probably something wrong with you regardless.
2 comments:
"Songs don't need words!"
Tru Dat! although, is it really a "song" if there's no singing? is it too pretentious to call it a "piece"? if it's being performed live, it wouldn't be a "track"...
Things that make you go Hmmm.
Oh, right: no words = no song. Well, you could have 'vocables', which technically wouldn't be words but would be sung: "la de da de dum".
"Piece" is a little pretentious, I think, but some of that is allowed. Although, re: the distinction between arts and not their similarity, let's save 'piece' for painting, I guess.
and say SOUNDSCAPE for music. Just kidding, that is for sure pretentious.
Much 'hmmm-ing' and humming here.
Looking to see if there was a good word for music-without-words, I discovered that the Army has an official song,
( at http://bands.army.mil/music/armysong.asp )
and you can download it with words, or not.
It's like the govt is reading our minds.
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