Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Creamtastic / The Spin The Foundry Field Recordings
Posted by Steve Haruch on Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:02 AM
Last night I checked out The Foundry Field Recordings at The Basement, a show I had been looking forward to, and one that did not disappoint. And FFR had so many '90s indie tropes going it was crazy:
- Sincerity!
- Female bass player. Using a Gallien-Kruger amp. And an e-bow!
- Another e-bow!
- Synchronized pedal-stomping!
- Counterintuitive drumming!
- Majestic build-ups!
- Steve Madden shoes!
- Boss Digital Delay!
- Backs turned to the audience!
You might be put off by my over-exclaiming, but it was a great show. The band is out on the road for a few weeks, then will head back to Missouri to work day jobs for a bit, finish school in one case, and eventually get cracking on a new record. If you're into that kind of thing, the first Foundry Field Recordings EP is downloadable at battlebrigades.com. More songs streamable, listenable and enjoyable at the FFR MySpace.
Photos from the evening after the jump.
Astronautilus
I will say this about Astronautilus: the guy can freestyle. (Yes, there was a hip-hop act on the same bill as a shoegazery indie pop band.) He took topics from the audience (duct tape, the theory that aliens built the pyramids, Michael Vick, garbagemen, Richard Gere and one more I can't remember) and wove a tale both absurd and entertaining over laptop beats. His other stuff didn't really grab me and his comedy routine wasn't really my thing, but I have to hand it to the guy for bringing it in front of 15 people on a Monday night. I didn't see much of openers Natives of the New Dawn, but they were funky.
The Foundry Field Recordings
It's hard to see in these photos, but drummer Benjamin Hook looks a bit like Joel J. Dahl. And during one song he pulled out an acoustic guitar that looked like it had a shattered mirror glued to it.
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