What an odd show. The combination seems strange to me.
Shearwater's sweet, soft tunes will coax you into a crippling depression from which all hope is drowned in a sea of tears.
Frog Eyes is the soundtrack to a major psychotic episode.
Perhaps this concert is meant as a musical representation of bipolar disorder. In any event, it's a good one and I'd love to go. But I don't think I'll be able to make it.
Track 16 on the ol' player to your right: "Nobody," by Shearwater. The guy from Shearwater used to be in Okkervil River. Now he performs his sad bastard music full time. It's off Palo Santo. I haven't heard the new album (Rook?) yet.
Frog Eyes has supplied #17. It's called "Bushels" off their recent album Tears of the Valedictorian. Like all Frog Eyes songs, it makes me want to take a bite out of a human, or at least grant Charles Manson parole (while taking a bite out of him).
Speaking of Frog Eyes, Spencer Krug used to be in this band. Then he wasn't. Now I think he sort of is again, because apparently some people need to be in 14 bands at the same time (I'm only half kidding: Wolf Parade, Swan Lake, Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes, Fifths of Seven).
Oh yeah, The Evangelicals are also playing at that show. La dee dah. I don't care. They're overrated, by which I mean, if you show up to see them open, you're overrating them. Ouch.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
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