miss u the rapture! photo from christiannation.com
Hey Friends,
You've come to rely on Remix Mountain for cutting-edge, up-to the minute music reporting, so I thought I'd let you know about some cool new bands. I'm just gonna shuffle up some tracks and tastemake away.
The Rapture:
I hate to have to ask this, but what ever happened to these guys? I remember back in 2003, the British press was all over them (At the time, I was in the UK on a prestigious Sub Pop internship to study the effect of American buzz bands in the British market/psyche). Think they rolled right off the tail end of the first "The" bands, like The Strokes, and then they didn't do anything else? Sounds like Brooklyn and maybe that doesn't translate elsewhere, besides the UK. They also came up before the internet became peoples' main source for air, food and music news/videos/album leaks, so they probably missed some important hype and couldn't really establish a strong blog presence, and now they're "old." Wonder what they're doing now? Probably interning at Moma. Whatever, "House of Jealous Lovers" still sounds awesome and will make you long for the days when New York seemed "cool" rather than where all your friends from high school moved after college to get crappy jobs, have their parents pay their rent, and do coke in the bathroom of tacky,overpriced bars with tacky, overpaid dudes and broads.
Verdict: Sorry, bros.
Plants And Animals/Parc Avenue
This came out about 16 months ago and should be called "Riding the Canadian indie-world domination wave." Their With/Avec EP is better. Just Sayin. But seriously, Plants and Animals are very good.
Verdict: Canada is awesome!
Patsy Cline:
I think she is some post-ironic singer songwriter trying to appeal to our appreciation of authenticity. It works.
Ruby Suns:
Yes. Seriously. Just check them out. They're American but moved to New Zealand. I don't want to say anything else and ruin it. You will not regret this.
Passion Pit:
New Genre Alert: Mediocore.
Just listened to this "band" for the first time and couldn't help but get really angry. First of all, they're from Boston, which is one rung lower than Philadelphia on the list of East Coast Cities That Aren't New York. I know 19 year olds who think that they "get it" because they "shop at American Apparel" and aren't actually that self-aware but they have just completed their first year of college/done drugs/know to how appeal to the opposite sex have elected this group of bearded young white men as the flavor du season, but they sound like a pretty blatantly watered-down American version of Justice, that you can dance to and also experience valid emotion to while hanging with your friends and maybe making out with your crush before breaking up over txt msg. I like that about this kind of music, but I get sad when I think about what they'll be doing in five years. Probably in worse shape than The Rapture.
There are about 20 other bands who are doing this exact thing, have also appeared in Nylon Magazine for 14-year-old aspiring vapid "fashion photographers"/drug trade supporters, and they're all pouring Amstel Light for their high school classmates in their hometown's "most legit" bar now.
Verdict: Catchy as hell (before it gets grating), disposable as fuck.
John Fahey:
Perfect antidote to Passion Pit. Sigh. (Sorry to use those two in the same sentence.) But solo guitar is awesome. Highly recommended.
stay tuned for Part Deux for more opinions you should have.
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