Friday, March 27, 2009
Cream Calendar / Moving Pictures Chairlift Play Exit/In Saturday
Posted by Steve Haruch on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:08 AM
Greenpoint electro-popsters and former MGMT roomies Chairlift come to Exit/In on Saturday. Their song "Evident Utensil" sounds kind of like a bunch of Natasha Khan, Right Said Fred and "Who's Gonna Drive You Home, Tonight?" all trying to squeeze into the same pair of skinny jeans. This song might be about a pencil--which is an implement, not a utensil. Then again it might be about love and law and poverty. Tevs.
You might notice that this video is pretty much horrible-looking, but in a way that might be familiar. Like Kanye's "Welcome to Heartbreak," for instance, or the video it's posted on YouTube as a response to, Paperrad's "Umbrella Zombie Mistake." The technique is called datamoshing (sometimes written as data moshing) and is basically the visual equivalent of Auto-Tune: It looks bad and is totally "now." Which means it will soon be "so five minutes ago," which hopefully won't take longer than five minutes. I'd rather have some glitchNES anyway. (9 p.m. Acrylic and Oblio open. $10 or $12 at the door.)
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do you think, like datamoshing/data moshing, this band will be over in five minutes as well?
random aside: their drummer is from Franklin, TN, went to FHS and Grassland middle.
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If I ran a hedge fund that bet against bands I thought could never, ever outperform their hype, I'd be hand-washing Vampire Weekend's cashmere right now.
Does that really mean much at this point? Those commercials are all starting to run together for me.
Gotta say, I was at one of their performances at SXSW last Saturday, and I don't even remember really hearing them until I heard the chick singing "I tried to do handstands for you" etc etc.
Said aloud "OH - this is that band" and went back to whatever I was doing, i.e. drinking.
This was the last day of the fest and I was pretty fried though, so take the lack of impression with a grain of salt.
I guess I get nostalgic thinking about Of Montreal playing Red Rose when I was in high school (definitely wasn't there, hadn't even heard of the band yet; did get to see Elf Power at the Marquee Moon Band Halloween show, though).
Now, they've got a track in a ton of Outback Steakhouse commercials and one in a Staples commercial. But they still play (relatively) small venues. Does this mean they're being cool (to fans at least), being dumb, or got a raw licensing deal?
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