Thanksgiving Leftovers
So much food. So much music. Please enjoy this bounty of over-posting like humans enjoy Thanksgiving over-stuffing.
We start in the animal kingdom with Lions and Elephants by The Features and Them Crooked Vultures respectively. The Features, who are big in the UK, but less so stateside, hail from Tennessee, and were discovered and signed to the Kings of Leon label, Impact. The song has a big shiny sing-along whoa-oh refrain, but the part that really attracts me to it are the surprisingly dark verses and bridges. It's quite bi-polar, and quite good.
On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Them Crooked Vultures carry with them the well-known pedigrees of Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, and John Paul Jones of yes, Led F*cking Zeppelin. Their new album sounds exactly what the product of such collaboration should, yet still manages to surprise and impress. I've selected the admittedly long-ish track Elephants because the opening jam session resolves into one of the biggest offbeat swaggers I have ever heard. This is rock-god rock. Zeus and lightning bolts and Zildjians.
Phase II brings the groove back with the bands Thao with the Get Down Stay Down and the Royal Bangs. The song Body will have yours moving (damn my clever wordplay) with the fun yet sincere chorus:
Hailing from Knoxville (that's two for you, Tennessee), the Royal Bangs have been described as "belting garage rock, quirky indie rock and bamboozling electronica, all served up in one smart and super-confident package, rather like a chirpier, younger, less navel-gazing Radiohead". Does that sound good? Not sure, but they sound good, and that's what counts, right?
Rounding out the 5-pack is Au Revoir Simone. Their track All or Nothing is the perfect sonic dessert to this Thanksgiving weekend bounty. Hailing from Brooklyn, the band's name comes from a line Pee-Wee Herman says to a minor character (named Simone) in Tim Burton's Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. What's more pumkin pie than that? Nothing. That's what.
Anyhoo - hope you each had a wonderful turkey day and that the rest of the season brings you great joy and good music.
P.S. I've added "radio station" playlists for the more regular Seedies. The idea is that they will contain all the contributions filtered by contributor. I'll backfill them as far as possible, but if you'd like your list up-to-date going forward, simply add your track to the monthly playlist and then once more to your own radio station playlist. Word up.
We start in the animal kingdom with Lions and Elephants by The Features and Them Crooked Vultures respectively. The Features, who are big in the UK, but less so stateside, hail from Tennessee, and were discovered and signed to the Kings of Leon label, Impact. The song has a big shiny sing-along whoa-oh refrain, but the part that really attracts me to it are the surprisingly dark verses and bridges. It's quite bi-polar, and quite good. On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Them Crooked Vultures carry with them the well-known pedigrees of Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, and John Paul Jones of yes, Led F*cking Zeppelin. Their new album sounds exactly what the product of such collaboration should, yet still manages to surprise and impress. I've selected the admittedly long-ish track Elephants because the opening jam session resolves into one of the biggest offbeat swaggers I have ever heard. This is rock-god rock. Zeus and lightning bolts and Zildjians.Phase II brings the groove back with the bands Thao with the Get Down Stay Down and the Royal Bangs. The song Body will have yours moving (damn my clever wordplay) with the fun yet sincere chorus:What am I, just a body in your bed?Lead singer Thao Nguyen and band call originally hail from Virginia but call San Francisco home, so like, Buy Local. It's fresher.
Won't you reach for the body in your bed?
Anyhoo - hope you each had a wonderful turkey day and that the rest of the season brings you great joy and good music.
P.S. I've added "radio station" playlists for the more regular Seedies. The idea is that they will contain all the contributions filtered by contributor. I'll backfill them as far as possible, but if you'd like your list up-to-date going forward, simply add your track to the monthly playlist and then once more to your own radio station playlist. Word up.
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