ebony bones

i'm in love.

She is fucking brilliant. Can put on one hell of a show as well.

For those wondering. I think I ended up being a MySpace fakefriend because of the Rat Scabies connection -- didn't he play drums for her for a bit? Or still does?

Best show I've seen over the past year? Very possibly.

ysi

ysi the biggest vagina on earth

ysi harry potter with a vagina

oh wow

wow surprised this isn't a 1000 posts thread already here... post-MIA fatigue for indie chix with interesting drums & things to say that chronic?

the image & the style are fantastic and the influences are impeccable but none of the tracks i've heard hit as hard as, say, Galang, on first listen.

if that's the comparison we're gonna make, anyway. but i guess she's more retro than that. it sounds like Bow Wow Wow!

"We Know All About You" is fantastic.

Lovely people, totally amazing music. They deserve to be HUGE.

Have people actually been afforded much opportunity to hear her music? I wasn't aware of that if it's the case. I saw her (them? confused) play, um, over a year ago now I think and it was fun as hell, but not heard anything recorded

There's a few tracks on her MySpace and I think We Know All About You was released as a single.

Yeah please don't poisoned chalice this by comparing her to MIA! She's obviously a rock singer really, the band are clearly a rock band, but with hefty amounts of dancehall and electro sensibility in there as well. Coming at it from a totally different angle.

Come on! She is a Womang and she is Brown! She's clearly *just* like MIA.

Women aren't judged on what they sound like, they're judged on what they look like!

The music is a mix of garage rock and early funk, the singers mix rock and dancehall and the kind of call and response of gospel. They are amazingly energetic and highly danceable.

Shades of Savage Republic.

Weird that a trail that began at ball-o-caust ended here.

She's great. I saw her and her band playing before Dizzee Rascal in Shepherd's Bush Empire, and it was a brilliant show, with a good band. Looking forward to her debut album.

I wasn't poisoning any chalices... just trolling for attention :p

I'll attempt to navigate around M.I.A. and who she might actually appeal to IRL (indie kids?) by mixing dancehall/electro/rock/whatever. And whatever her natural vocal talents/limitations/inclinations might be...

But I don't think it's a totally different angle though just because one has a live band and the other performs as a kind of MC? More like travelling from a different direction but arriving at a similar-ish place?

but then, the first time I heard her (the last single) I mistook it for a Dubstep(!) tune (bars.. pff) and the second time I instantly realised who it probably was but assumed it was some indie kids on a bit of a animal collective/dance punk crossbreeding experiment tip.

So I was a bit surprised when I actually found the myspace! I think perhaps Kate is a bit right, but also that Matt dc is also being a bit disingenuous.

I think they're more alike each other than they are different, compared to the rest of music atm anyway, philosophically too. Even if they don't necc. sound ex-act-ly the same...

but yeah, this isn't really about M**, although the post-M** tag is probably gonna follow her around for a bit however much people don't (weirdly, isn't she the most influential solo artist of 00's to some people already..?) wanna discuss it. AT least until she gets more live reputation?

ha...I was flipping through youtube clips (loving this) and it turns out I've heard "Like Harry Potter With A Vagina" at least 5 times on the local college radio station.

NEED MUCH MUCH MOAR

DONT FART ON MY HEART!!!!!!!!!!!

DONT FART ON MY HEART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Don't Fart on My Heart" and "We Know All About You" are the most played songs in my iTunes!

I just found that out.

Jabba's Bow Wow Wow comparison is pretty obviously krekt if one absolutely has to make one, brown womeng or no.