Artist: Boo and Boo Too
Album: Boo and Boo Too EP
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Label: Ironpaw Records
Location: Lawrence, KS
Genre: Indie, Rock, Experimental
Similar: Desaparecidos, The Strokes, At the Drive-In
Listen: David Turns a Mystic, Couch on Fire
Purchase: Ironpaw Records, Amazon
Album: Boo and Boo Too EP
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Label: Ironpaw Records
Location: Lawrence, KS
Genre: Indie, Rock, Experimental
Similar: Desaparecidos, The Strokes, At the Drive-In
Listen: David Turns a Mystic, Couch on Fire
Purchase: Ironpaw Records, Amazon
Upon first listen, the vocals reminded me of Conor Oberst's days with Desaparecidos (more apparent on "David Turns a Mystic") and The Strokes (though what band with noisy guitars and pop riffs hasn't been compared to them?). Though the suggested tracks were the first three, it was the fourth and final track on the EP, "Couch on Fire", that really grabbed my attention. Right from the opening, Barrett Emke howls "There's a couch on fire!" and the song gradually becomes wonderfully instrumental. Their music doesn't sound like something I would associate with a children's book, but I was surprised by how their band name came about. This is what they had to say about it in an interview with Lawrence.com:
April Fleming: Where did your band name come from?
Barrett Emke: It comes from a book. It’s a children’s book and there are two ghosts. One of the ghosts is named Boo and the other ghost is named Boo Too. They live in this house together and they have this costume party, and they eat a bunch of cake and play hide and seek and Boo Too gets stuck in the chimney.
April: Oh no — what were they doing?
Barrett: She hides and then because she ate too much cake so she gets stuck in the chimney — then they find her and pull her out.
April: I didn’t know ghosts could get fat.
Derek Solsberg: Ghosts love cake.
Their debut EP is available through their label Ironpaw Records or you can get it from Amazon (Sellers).
April Fleming: Where did your band name come from?
Barrett Emke: It comes from a book. It’s a children’s book and there are two ghosts. One of the ghosts is named Boo and the other ghost is named Boo Too. They live in this house together and they have this costume party, and they eat a bunch of cake and play hide and seek and Boo Too gets stuck in the chimney.
April: Oh no — what were they doing?
Barrett: She hides and then because she ate too much cake so she gets stuck in the chimney — then they find her and pull her out.
April: I didn’t know ghosts could get fat.
Derek Solsberg: Ghosts love cake.
Their debut EP is available through their label Ironpaw Records or you can get it from Amazon (Sellers).
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