OMG! I Got New Indie Rock In The Mail! What Should I Listen To First!??

this is not a poll.

i got CDs by:

Sea Sick (from brooklyn, i think. mastered by kramer! i remember that guy! lol hippie.)

I Learn Everything On TV (OMG! So do I!)

The Fresh & Onlys (The One & Onlys must have been taken.)

Tartufi (Tutti Allrooty!)

Daniel Francis Doyle (scared...of...three...names...bet...he...has...sad...beard...)

To Lose La Track Super Sampler (??????????? Tiger!Shit!Tiger!Tiger!???? Dummo???? EEkheart????)

Death Sentence: Panda! (If! you! say! so!)

okay, lemme know. i am ready for an alt-rock blast! With Pandas! And lots of exclamation points!

I love that Fresh & Onlys album!

okay, i'll play that first.

I'm playing it!

Not bad so far. I like guitars.

the fresh & onlys is the only i've heard (or heard of). keyboards and girl(s?)'s background vocals aren't so bad

yeah, not bad, but i'm getting bored. i guess i'll have to pick another one at random. well, here goes nothing...

okay i'm putting the panda album on. i'm a little scared...

um, okay, i'll try something else. maybe the three named guy...

wow. okay. tartufi it is!

awwww, oh well. i have high hopes for sea sick though!

r.i.p. brooklyn. hey, maybe this label comp will be fun. it's from italy! they're funny there!

Sea Sick isn't Seasick, the hardcore band from New Jersey, is it?

that Italian label sampler was not very good. It's up to I Learn Everything On TV to bring home the bacon!

no, sea sick is someone's girlfriend and some guy and some other guy. probably.

if someone ever tries to play I Learn Everything On TV for you, punch them in the face. Repeatedly.

I saw Tartufi on Monday. Lots of analogue gear and loop pedals and scurrying between instruments. It was OK but they took about a century to set up and I felt them less as a result, I think

no, sea sick is someone's girlfriend and some guy and some other guy. probably.

ha ha ha A++++

well, thanks everyone! that was fun. thanks for all your help. I'm looking at you, Johnny!

Yeah, I saw Tartufi last night - I'm guessing, in that case, that they're second support on the Marnie Stern/Nissennenmondai tour? They were... they had the odd moment, but I just couldn't get into them (the other two were ace, mind)

Daniel Francis Doyle (scared...of...three...names...bet...he...has...sad...beard...)

I saw this guy last year and he's pretty awesome live (also didn't have a beard, at least at the time) -- basically plays guitar parts, then loops them, and plays drums and sings at the same time over the loops, and his songs are kind of spazzy and disjointed but still kind of pop. The album loses something in translation since you don't get the full effect of seeing him create the tracks in real time, but it's still good.

the girlfriend in tartufi is pretty bad. as a singer. i guess the music isn't so bad? i dunno, i couldn't listen for long. she's about as bad vocally as daniel doyle. though i don't doubt that he could be better live. okay, i doubt it a little.

the deerhoof fan in the panda band is in a league of her own vocally though.

yeah not real into his voice on record either, although i don't know if it was better live or if i was just less bothered by it.

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that panda lark is some nails-down-blackboard shit

fuck you, death sentence: panda totally rule!

WBS - yeah they are supporting Marnie Stern - I don't think Nisennenmondai are an actual tour support as they didn't visit my manor but I'm seeing them at the weekend and am actually pretty dorkishly excited

I kind of wish some critic with too much to listen to would outsource some of it to me - I'd do it for free and it'd be so much fun.

fuck you too xxps xx

what's the sea sick cd like??

I don't think Nisennenmondai are an actual tour support as they didn't visit my manor but I'm seeing them at the weekend and am actually pretty dorkishly excited

I just saw 'em last night and am still pretty dorkishly excited! Epic long set too I think, since the soundguy tried to turn the lights on halfway through, and they just kept on going for another half hour. Maybe I should dig out the actual Nisennenmondai thread (I assume there is one) but you know how it is when on the bus home you think you have 6000 things to say about a gig and then the next day they're all gone.

Back on topic, I remember thinking a previous release by Death Sentence: Panda was pretty awesome hyperactive fun, though I've missed at least one since and haven't heard the new one yet.