where has this band been all my life??
i'm surprised they lack their own thread, or ACTUALLY any mention whatsoever, if our whirring search engines are accurate.
i will try to describe them in a few words. big-band cut-up r&b jazz hip hop. OK? with a zappa-esque ambition of arrangement and a sort of "out-but-tightness". they are sort of everything i want right now. (almost.)
anyway they have a new album out but from what i've heard i still prefer their 2007 self-titled, with the absolutely astonishing "on thin ice" feat. lylit. whoever lylit is she can sing. i love how you can hear the clicking of the sax keys on this track, it's so close up. in real life you'd never hear things like that. if the sax was that close to your ear you'd be deafened.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 10:14 (fifteen years ago)
even discogs has no info on these guys! i guess they don't care too much about p.r.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 10:25 (fifteen years ago)
the only review of these guys in the iTunes store is from ME! i feel like i'm in the twilight zone here!! seriously these guys should be opening for beyonce or something.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 12:31 (fifteen years ago)
or on the strength of "LowGoGiantBlow" they should be opening for a triple bill of Dave Douglas, the JBs and DJ SS
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:13 (fifteen years ago)
haha i am not doing them a service on this thread. sorry d00ds
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 17:53 (fifteen years ago)
Give us a link or something!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 17:54 (fifteen years ago)
Oh wait, just read why. For a second I'm all 'Not even a YouTube clip, Tracer?'
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 17:55 (fifteen years ago)
Their new album is on Spotify. I was going to give it a listen tonight, based on this thread.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:33 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.myspace.com/skinvitational
http://vids.myspace.com/skinvitational
seriously the 2007 album is just relentless. the new one is sparer, less live, more raw. haven't really heard it enough yet to know though.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 22:52 (fifteen years ago)
we need fauxmarc on this thread
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)
Ah OK I think I get it now! They're Austrian band nerds fronted by Marky Mark!!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 13:01 (fifteen years ago)
CONDUCTED by Marky Mark even
Listened to a bit of the new album on Spotify. It's nice, but mostly it made me want to listen to the Roots.
― seandalai, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:25 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4SSOApq-nI
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:42 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYI4VLImLJo
http://www.kopfhoerer-rec.de/links/khr016/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 07:49 (eight years ago)
my hope: less rapping (or better rapping); more fierce hornlines
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 08:00 (eight years ago)