Perfect Pussy--I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling

This is rocking my socks off, as it will yours.

http://prrfectpussy.bandcamp.com

yeah, they are great.

looking forward for the LP

signed to captured tracks

These are very good. A split 7" with Joanna Gruesome in the spring iirc

I think I am going to see them in Philly on Sunday. They sound pretty good.

Here they are at the Pitchfork CMJ Showcase:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er2-ujXSpw8

Touring the Us of A. Still haven't decided if their screaming vocals are my kind of screaming vocals

at first i thought this was whatever but her vocals are really good, and i think the noise pedals stuff really gives it a cool vibe

haven't decided if it's a perfect pussy or not

The Philly show was essentially a house show, hosted by a row house attached to a corner bodega at a West Philly intersection that would have been far sketchier if it wasn't blanketed in snow. For reasons unknown to me, the publicist put me on a guest list, but seeing the family environment I coughed up the whopping $5 admission, keen to support the scene and all.

Despite the weather, the living room was adequately filled when Perfect Pussy played. It was a short show, only a handful of songs each played more briskly than the one before with vocals buried in the "mix" (which might be a feature not a bug, based on the tape I purchased.) But the band had an interesting sound, chaotic but held together by the skin of it's sharpened teeth, with synthesizer squeals adding a surprisingly important component. But the singer was the star, a ball of righteous fury whose conviction made me want to go to war for her if she asked, or maybe if she didn't but needed the help.

I purchased their cassette, the first tape I received in any form since a record label attempted to circumvent piracy by sending out advance tapes for the black metal band Dimmu Borgir some time ago. The last time I paid for a tape? I cannot even guess. And listening to it now, I can hear (like, literally) why I refuse to join in with the hipster black metal cassette trend. But this was all they had (and a white tee-shirt which I would have bought because while I have an affinity for profane articles of clothing, I never wear white shirts) and it's a tape hiss hot mess though I will eventually be convinced the background buzz is part of the audio experience.

There is a subtle subterfuge beneath the main narrative of Perfect Pussy, one that is even more profound than the blaring speed and volume, and this can be said not only of the disarmingly personal lyrics that are purposefully difficult to decipher but also of the Joy Division-like rhythms that snake beneath the carnage. But even if all you have time for is the fury, you can do a lot worse.

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can't believe you never wear white shirts

Me too.

Dc show tonight, not sure if I will make it.

Me too, as in I can't believe it either.

Hate white shirts. I have a couple that I use to wear beneath a tuxedo shirt that I wear when I do some part-time gigs dealing poker and blackjack, but I never wear a white shirt by itself.

thats a sweet part time job

still kicking myself for missing the Philly show :(((((((((

behold, my many Sadness Chins

saw them when they came through brooklyn. unfortunately those massive sheets of guitar noise from the EP did not really turn up in the live show, but the singer was great, plenty of charisma

Full length LP coming in early 2014. Very excited. That Shoppers album was maybe my favorite punk release of the last five years; glad she seems to be finding an audience with the new band

Hate the band name, but clearly it's working for them

can't make out lyrics from listening to the songs, but worth reading them on the bandcamp site. lyrics sold me on these songs.

NPR is streaming Perfect Pussy's forthcoming album:

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/09/286365663/first-listen-perfect-pussy-say-yes-to-love

I want to like this as I like noise and pop and noisy pop, but I don't know...seems flat/kinda boring. And that's not backlash talking.

Will revisit.

definitely flat and boring to me, which is backlash talking

I enjoyed it myself. Not too long...well sequenced and uses space well. Like the electronic ending too.

Hilarious name

Sick of it now tho

Try searching for a torrent of this...

As usually happens eventually, the name is just the sound of words to me now. I don't think of cement when I talk about Pavement.

The internet still thinks about exceptional vagina when you search "Perfect Pussy."

So do I, actually.....

"Pavement" is a somewhat more value-neutral name than "Perfect Pussy", tho

Second listen through and I am a confirmed fan. I THINK this kind of sound could so easily be relentless but it's not. It's good.

you know you're in an ILM thread about a punk rock band when someone is putting forward 'relentless' and 'good' as mutually exclusive values

this band are cool though. packaging for the CD version of this is amusingly prissy/OTT. looks like a mid-00s r'n'b album

OK these guys're fucking great, btw, quite like the name now. As you were

What changed your mind?

Listened to them, loved it.

Oh and I read a couple of interviews etc too

This is def a read-along-with-the-lyric-sheet band

this is a super interesting record imo - lotsa sweet 7th chords all over which coupled with the aggression/blown-out vocals makes for a good listen - remind me of unwound kinda?

oooh unwound! i'm interested now

whiney is REAAAALLY on the warpath about this band! he hate em!!

Deafheaven finished in his top ten for 2013 so http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/362/3/6/lol_whatever_kane_by_idera-d6zr9n7.jpg

Well just to be snide that just makes loving them all the sweeter, he's annoying

Relentless has a negative connotation. Yes I see your point. I guess I am a family man now.

upon further review, i am creeping to the "dig it" side of the fence about the first 15 minutes of this and love the last 6-8 minutes. i didn't even make it to the last part the first time i listened.

was a strange little record.

*what not was

(After reading this thread) I have lost all desire to listen to this record

It's not bad! Though it's weird which bands seem to get randomly picked out of underground rock for acclaim... like this seems like a band I would see at a bar and be like I'm digging this but there are probably 1000 bands that are just as cool

Srsly wish I lived where you do

This album is just okay. I'll give it another listen and see if it sticks, but it's not doing much for me.

(Whoops, I was referring to their latest album.)

post here the name of a young noisy rock band that could/should be just as big as Perfect Pussy and I'll explain why PP is probably better.

"noisy rock" much like "experimental music" or is another dress-up box re-enactment society.
don't get it. you need a whipcrack tight drummer & better tunes to pull this off. all i hear is a rushed plod with shouting.
thrilled skinny.

Let There Be Shelving!!! Fine. PP fine also.

at the risk of stepping beyond anything I know about, I heard two hardcore-sounding tracks by this band and thought they sounded like Melt Banana, but less aggressive. Then I heard an indie-rock sounding song, and didn't like it. Am I missing something, or are there a ton of bands who sound like this, 99% of which are not and never will be famous?

I've tried really hard to like this record, especially in light of all the people insinuating that I'm a bad person and/or bad critic if I don't, and it still... doesn't do anything much for me. it's not awful, it just doesn't distinguish itself. it sounds like a thousand vague memories of bands I've seen at death by audio and started to check my phone ten minutes in, whose names even blur together at this point. speaking of, the band name still bugs me, the same way most cutesy-congratulatory-shocking names do.

it sounds like a thousand vague memories of bands I've seen at death by audio and started to check my phone ten minutes in

ding ding ding ding ding

this record sucks

not sold on the sound. i like that scuzzy, raw over-driven sound sometimes; just not working here, especially with the shrieking vocals. but the lyrics i've seen, mostly from the ep but a few songs from the debut, are fierce.

i want to read this album more than i want to hear it.

i think i'm with lamp on this one

Absolutely loving this, fuck why

OK actually cos I love the songs, the noise interludes, and bc they're not called "Melt Banana". Also afaik their name isn't meant to be cutesy/shocking/anything other than affriming

comparing this tepid shit to the mighty Melt Banana is fucking insane

No, it rly isn't. MB're kinda "wacky", I just don't like that

PP'RE SRS MAN

are you talking about them now? or for their whole career?

Just now, I guess. Feel free to recommend better stuff if you want

i'm just saying they've been a band since 92 and just doing this power glove synth thing for a couple years

like they used to just destroy imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgb-T2OeCG0

Yeah that's great! Still like PP better tho, I like the formlessness

Am I missing something, or are there a ton of bands who sound like this, 99% of which are not and never will be famous?

― Dominique, Monday, March 17, 2014 6:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You're missing the thing that twentysomething critics have and thirtysomethings willfully ignore, and that's the idea that 285 Kent was "important" not just a place for millionaires and corporations to harvest talent and enthusiasm at the lowest level under the auspices of "DIY"

no ott

but also it really does seem like only rock critics are fucking with this band, no?

they have less than 500 Spotify followers, and their highest ranked YouTube has 80,753 views?

Zing

cmon there aren't 500 music critics left

be interested to know what attendance is like at their shows, which is a more important metric than YouTube/Spotify/record sales/unqualifiable buzz

How many tracks did they have on Spotify prior to the release of the new album? Looks like a grand total of one. So 500 followers (it's actually closer to 600 according to Spotify, but don't let that get in the way of whatever point is trying to be made here) sounds like a decent amount.

they feel to me like a band whose 'natural' record sales would be somewhere in the three-figure mark, and I mean absolutely nothing disparaging by that

selling records in the wild

Yeah they'e a live band whose sales'd build, def

You're missing the thing that twentysomething critics have and thirtysomethings willfully ignore, and that's the idea that 285 Kent was "important" not just a place for millionaires and corporations to harvest
talent and enthusiasm at the lowest level under the auspices of "DIY"

idg what you mean by this?

sorry

ok? idk it seemed like the vague outline of something interesting - more interesting than whether or not the band perfect pussy is 'actually popular' - and was curious

Wt is 285 Kent

the fader fort east

Lampy, the idea that 285 Kent was "important" and not just "another totally fine DIY space in a country filled with 100 totally fine DIY spaces located in parts of the country where people don't have inflated senses of self-worth" was a narrative invented and put forward by Pitchfork. Once they established that narrative, Pitchfork used it constantly to wag the dog on bands they liked, and got places like Topshop and Doc Martens to put up $$$$$$ for an ostensibly DIY venue. All the people writing about 285 Kent bands for Pitchfork/Stereogum/et al are under 30 and probably wildly underpaid so no one says "Hey, this is just like X-Ray Spex/Harry Pussy/Melt Banana but shittier and lazier" and instead approaches this with the same youthful enthusiasm I had for, like, Rhymesayers when I was that age.

That's how this music works atm, isn't it? Can't write abt/expose 100 spaces

well, yeah, just one more thing the internet has ruined

lol never knew the US had Topshop now

Changed. I feel you, have had similar things happen, bt no point railing against it

I feel you on the whole "285 Kent was the new CBGB" idea and the outsize attention this band is probably getting, but that said, I think the album's pretty good (especially track 3)

To be fair, I like the noise jam at the end of the rekkid

ha I'm the exact opposite, that one track before the noise jam has a dumb couple minutes of silence and a lot of times I end up bailing

It's not silence!

On my earbuds anyway

ok, tape hiss

cmon there aren't 500 music critics left

― j., Tuesday, March 18, 2014

we are all music critics now.

Yeah, I love things like that as part of a record

this band is good and all but idg the CRAZY NOISE ROCK talk they sound like butterglory x times new viking

I would like to mention that the band live is a pretty good investment of your time if you're on the fence about the band. Even playing through amps in the living room of a floor show last year (I "reviewed" it above), the singer really is intense and captivating. "They're better live" is a cliche but it fits and not only because the way the vocals are recorded might be off-putting to some.

Crazy Horse can't play fast, weird comparison xpost

That's funny, I read Crazy Horse by mistake too.

Am I correct to assume that everyone is making an extra effort to say that PP aren't that special only because Pfork is saying they are?

Haha. IMD I did have some surgery earlier today

I don't have an excuse!

Yeah well you didn't comp them to Butterglory, so

i hear a lot of mission of burma in them, but a lot of mission of burma just seeped into the DNA of US underground rock so i hear them in bands that might not have even heard MoB

I think it's a bit odd and disingenuous to say everyone's opinions on this band, or any band, are secretly just their displaced opinions on a music publication

it's not like this kind of music just disappeared once indie rock started to refer to 'olive garden commercial folk rock'
if you have problems finding bands like this just pick up your free alt weekly and go to some random shows, the ones that are cheap and free and feature bands with edgy names.

katherine I'm just getting a knee jerk "they're not so great!!" vibe here and wondering why. Have other publications already been talking about them? I haven't paid enough attention.

I assume some ppl here had their interest piqued by the coverage they've accrued so far, when they might not have encountered it otherwise, and just gave their two cents? not getting any real kneejerky vibe as yet

I'll be fair and say my cynicism can make me hypersensitive to a negative generalization I may be looking for and exaggerating evidence. I'm working on that.

Though in this case specifically it's more of a "wait, has there been hype elsewhere as well or something?" I don't have the time to risk googling perfect pussy at work with co-workers walking by behind me.

plenty of other publications have talked about them -- NPR is the first to come to mind

nyt, stereogum, etc

I assume some ppl here had their interest piqued by the coverage they've accrued so far, when they might not have encountered it otherwise, and just gave their two cents? not getting any real kneejerky vibe as yet

― in my day this was all feels (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, March 18, 2014 1:10 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p much it for me

also they are named Perfect Pussy which gets your attention

Thanks! Personally I liked what I heard so far. I didn't have a lot of expectations going in.

xpost I liked 285 Kent the time we played there w Ed Schrader and Guardian Alien but I don't see why it gets the retrospective heavy breathing machine going, I mean it's not like it was, say, Fort Thunder or Tarantula Hill or somewhere truly "out"

Better than Savages. Better than sunrise on a cold morning.

ed schrader's music beat is crazy! they slayed live!

xpost I liked 285 Kent the time we played there w Ed Schrader and Guardian Alien but I don't see why it gets the retrospective heavy breathing machine going

i don't know why people cannot admit that this is a BUSINESS decision on P4k's part and a hilarious kool-aid party entry for any non-NYC publication that covered the closing of a local venue

I love perfect pussy, but only because of the way the recordings are produced and mixed and stuff. If they were produced differently, like if the vocals were clearer, they'd (unfairly) just be another punk band to me, and I fucking hate punk

(which, I know, they're not even punk)

otm, i feel that way re the specificity of the sound, although I don't hate punk

http://bullettmedia.com/article/perfect-pussys-meredith-graves-on-fame-overcoming-shyness-the-genius-of-kool-keith/

Do you enjoy writing about music? 
Sort of. My favorite magazine has always been Maximum Rocknroll – I've been reading it since I was 12. But some of the people that review records for Maximum lived for that punk thing of, 'I know more about music than everybody else.' The only way you can review music is by saying it sounds like this band, then you get the fucking record and it doesn't sound anything like that. I want to hear, 'I listened to this record and it made me go out into my garage and eat half a box of ho hos and smash stuff.' That will get me to listen to a record. I think there needs to be a shift in music writing. Actually, no. I think everyone should be able to write about whatever they want, but I would like to see more people writing about music that write about it differently. I just want to hear about how the record made you feel.

would the ho-ho part really distinguish one record from another, all critics considered, is the question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyVrZfyfeZw

Sounds cool, but also sounds like any punk rock band you could see anywhere ever in the last 20 years, only w the lead vocals mixed low. Lead singer is super attractive so that probably helps.

*RBftT*

Oh yeah that's it, duh. Attractive women're such a rarity, after all

J. No, bt if it ws a record you were already interested in it might tip you into actually hearing it

Sry tho Adam took that a little personally, her looks prob do infl the amt of interest in PP, but they make no diff to me, largely as she seems a bit too much a hippy in interviews for my liking

Shit, sorry if I offended anyone. Hetero male here. She's super cute. That isn't a bad thing in the an industry based on selling image.

I lied about the punk band thing too, it sounds more like cool stuff form early 2000s, house show stuff that you don't get to hear much anymore because everything is heavily stylized. The production is raw and loud!

That's OK I overreacted, it's just I just fell hard for the demo before I saw any pics (I like the album a lot more, btw)

Cool, yeah it rocks!

Like this album more than I thought I would.
Yrah it's all about the production. The singer and "melodies" is the weak part.

(She reminds me of Bikini Kill)

Yeah same (Tobi Vail singing on In Accordance to Natural Law to be specific), diff reaction obv

just from the youtube clips, it just sounds like no-frills goo/dirty sonic youth to me, like the more straight-up punk songs they did around then... in a good way.

interesting to see Toby Vail joining the media conspiracy, the one where people get rich by fooling rubes into liking Perfect Pussy

this album is wonderful

sounds like "brassneck" by the wedding present

ps i listened to this album 4 times before seeing what the band looked like and i'm sure whiney's pitchfork basement conspiracy is damning but idgaf, this is a great album

honestly alex's review is all i needed to take a listen

But the singer was the star, a ball of righteous fury whose conviction made me want to go to war for her if she asked, or maybe if she didn't but needed the help.

i'm sure whiney's pitchfork basement conspiracy is damning

haven't managed to join the dots between his various observations tbh. is there something that makes PP more of a symbol of corporations glomming onto DIY punk culture than any of the other bands who played at this venue he's talking about?

whiney sounding a lot like chris ott tbh

honestly alex's review is all i needed to take a listen

no ott

― perfect puppy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, March 18, 2014 9:34 AM (3 days ago)

http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

ha

a symbol of corporations glomming onto DIY punk culture

Most of DIY punk culture is due to wealthy parents, or at least parents w expendable income to give their rebellious kids. It's always been corporate in this way.

That wasn't Alex, that was me! But I am a little proud that someone would think that it was Alex... :)

oh sorry nycn, somehow i got the idea that he was going under your name now

can someone explain the pitchfork/topshop/perfect pussy illuminati action?

Most of DIY punk culture is due to wealthy parents, or at least parents w expendable income to give their rebellious kids. It's always been corporate in this way.

― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, March 21, 2014 2:42 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel like this is said a lot more than it's true, at least in my experience a great deal of the ppl in diy/punk i know are from middle-to-working class backgrounds

whiney lays it down very succinctly upthread http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/03/18/289013884/who-had-richer-parents-doctors-or-arists

neat graph

most ppl i know involved in DIY & punk have actual day jobs so their profession would be listed as teacher, or admin assistant, or programmer, or whatever actual career/job they have

My anger is more authentic than your anger cos my parents made less money sounds silly.

i feel like this is said a lot more than it's true, at least in my experience a great deal of the ppl in diy/punk i know are from middle-to-working class backgrounds

― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 21, 2014 7:54 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's also to varying degrees less true outside north America I wd say. in any case Adam's post has nothing to do w/ what I was getting at which is Whiney's thing abt "got places like Topshop and Doc Martens to put up $$$$$$ for an ostensibly DIY venue"

the publicist put me on a guest list
SMASH THE SYSTEM !

The Philly show was essentially a house show, hosted by a row house attached to a corner bodega at a West Philly intersection that would have been far sketchier if it wasn't blanketed in snow. For reasons unknown to me, the publicist put me on a guest list, but seeing the family environment I coughed up the whopping $5 admission, keen to support the scene and all.

what on earth is the point of trying to be a dick about this kind of thing when the rest of the paragraph in question is right here itfuckingt

ooh touchy !
it ain't about you, narcissus

point was if you're making art that needs publicists (or, indeed grants) then, y'know while it might be great both the artists n that, to me it's bankrupt

er..
great for the artists n that, like y'kna. cha

I didn't write the post in question so it clearly isn't about me, I just thought it was and is a dumb mischaracterisation of everyone involved. if you honestly think that any band who has someone else help promote their music is morally unclean then fine but I'm not sure ILM is really your ideal stomping ground tbh

"clearly isn't about me", ok debating-team captain.
yes it is a dumb mischaracterisation of everone involved, y'think maybe on purpose? for fun?
ffs

well I can't stand in the way of some #topbantz

actually i don't know - i've totally lost the plot. i say things, and then i don't actually have any clue why. it's all post-hoc justification. did i mean it, was it a joke? are my opinions, my values situationally determined from second to second?
it seems that way.
apologies for any inconvenience & I wish you all well despite random outbursts

oh i x-posted with your delightfully generous #topbantz insinuation.
good work !

i wonder if there are less arguments settled with fists these days because everyone fancies themself a master wizard of wit

Yes the schoolyards are now clear of blood. All that can be heard is the sound of puns, obscure cutting references, well considered snark, elaborate asides and general glorious eloquence piled upon eloquence deciding who is top dog. I also note that the Ukraine situation has been thus far free of fists. Action movies are no longer relevant and boxing has lost it's former prestige. Even Mike Tyson prefers Twitter. Tis a golden age to be sure.

Hype is fun bc makes me feel part of something in distanced age of internet

Yes. And what is meant by hype in this case? Seems to me it just means that 'Pitchfork likes it' + a couple.of other articles in supposedly influential publications. It's not like there are billboards everywhere, viral campaigns and well managed appearances on Ellen. This is pretty small scale hype I would say - 99.99 percent of the population has no idea this band exists. But I welcome a bit of excitement and hyperbole...if that's how it makes you feel then why not? I don't want to always feel jaded and cynical about new music despite that fact that age and experience are inevitably wearying. Remember how it used to feel?

Yeah exactly, also age is a lot less wearying if you don't sit around whining all the fucking time

I like this band, fuck this thread

lotta still spots on this album, posed moments of peacefulness

i like how the alongside stream of feedback and ranting makes the boring indie part seem chunky and purposeful

this isn't that bad

It's not bad at all. It's like your friend's band that's pretty good.

Wow, a really good friend band. Glowing endorsement.

doubleplusgood or GTFO

Just saw them but her mic wasn't working for the entire set. Like, you couldn't hear her at all for the entire thing. It was a bit weird, you'd think they'd stop the set and give her another mic. People kept glaring at the soundman but he just kept shrugging like he couldn't do anything about it. The soundman sent someone onstage to check the mics after they'd finished, and they worked OK for the headline band, so I dunno wtf that was about.

♫ a candy-coloured clown they call the soundman ♫

Not at all? I've heard reports from shows on this (UK) tour that the vocals were way too low. I'm sceptical about some of those reports 'cause the vocals aren't necessarily that discernable on initial listens on the recorded material, and when I saw them last week in Brighton the levels seemed more or less similar to the records. They went down a storm in any case.

A few years ago I saw a Shoppers show in a basement where the bassist's amp wasn't working at all, but rather than wait until she figured it out they played a solid third of the set without her while she messed around with it helplessly. Meredith Graves really doesn't seem like she sweats the details

tbh I haven't heard anything by Perfect Pussy before, so maybe they are an instrumental band with a miming Bez dancing around in front, I did wonder.

This was how they were in Brighton

http://youtu.be/5t6sqV9ooXw

One of the things with the records is gradually hearing more of the lyrics I guess, it makes sense having the lyrics swimming in the middle of the mix. I've seen other clips of them live where the lyrics were more clearly audible though.

That's what I kept thinking I suppose, she was obviously putting a lot into singing or shouting or whatever she does, it was quite unsettling that there was no sound coming out, and most of the music seemed pretty interchangeable noise guitars so the lyrics must be part of the appeal I assume. Maybe the people at the front could hear her through proximity but the gig was in the back room of a pub so I wasn't that far away.

I started wondering if it was some kind of art statement about the female voice being drowned out by males or something.

The venue manager just posted on FB - She had her hand totally covering the mic (Sound tech and I were listening through the headphones on the desk, nae vocals)

So yeah, dunno what that was about, but it was a bit shit.

I saw them the other day in a basement and can attest that the either the mic wasn't working or the vocals were completely buried in the mix, such as it was. I heard vocals from other bands so I am assuming it's an aesthetic choice.

Perfect Vanilli

Here's some noisy video I shot of the band playing Philly a couple weeks ago...

Video

Thanks for making me put on the ep again, still love it, submerged vocals and all

opening band

Really really dislike the processing/muffling of the vocals in this band -- perfect example of once edgy thing becoming a well-worn trope.

http://collection.eliterature.org/2/extra/v2images/waterson_trope.png

Yeah, I loved the 4 song EP, but I never have the urge to play the debut album.

opening band

― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, September 10, 2014 1:34 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw them the other day in a basement and can attest that the either the mic wasn't working or the vocals were completely buried in the mix, such as it was. I heard vocals from other bands so I am assuming it's an aesthetic choice.

― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 9:57 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, I had already forgotten I had seen them

I haven't, because they are the answer to "who was the shittest band you saw this year?"

I think this piece from the singer may answer some of the questions about low vocals:

http://thehairpin.com/2014/11/never-too-much/

The first time in my life that people have paid attention to what I have to say and it's threatening to take my voice away for good.

just saw them play outdoors in 19°F weather.

http://i.imgur.com/zNzxRvZ.png

overall the sound was shitty, but the vocals were as upfront as you'd expect from any band

I love the energy but my attitude toward the vocals varies - I think the effect works amazingly well on "Interference Fits" when the first thing you really understand is "since when do we say yes to love?"

homage to them in the new "House of Cards" season.

separate from the Pussy Riot stand-in or did that also reference PP? (I've only been able to half concentrate on this season, not explicitly trashy enough.)