Crazy weekend. Saw Superchunk, then Birdlips, then The Very Best, and now about to go see Dirty Projectors and possibly Crystal Antlers and Magnolia Electric Co. After a lot of hard work over the last few weeks, it's been a nice payoff.
Speaking of nice payoff, everybody already knows that one of the year's best albums is Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear. I saw them live a few years ago at Satellite Ballroom when they were opening for the Books and remember thinking that this then-unsung band was boring in the extreme, creating a thick ambient soup that was too passive to bother with such niceties as, y'know, compelling me to feel something.
Well, these guys have come a long long long way and I am glad to take back my original assessment. They've had a run of great radio/TV/internet appearances lately, but this performance of "Ready, Able" on Letterman is a real treat. The album version has a languid, spectral quality that they ditch here for a strong backbone of bass and drums, a confident vocal, and an alternately tense and lush string arrangement. And what attention to the dynamics, such control over volume and timbre.
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how was Superchunk? Their
how was Superchunk? Their album Foolish is one of my favs. That's the only album I've ever heard from them.
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Superchunk were really likeable and energetic. Their guitars kept running urgently ahead of the beat and had just enough distortion on them to make the melody ring a bit louder but without too much harshness. The rhythm section was solid, I forgot that indie rock bands used to have drummers that could actually play the drums. A strong argument for the 1990's, basically.