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Marquis For The Debutante is the debut album from Last American Buffalo, a band from Los Angeles, California. They're described as sounding as part of Catherine Wheel (I will have to write about them later - they were one of my first concert experience!) and The Killers.
Although the description suggests "rock", I think they sound more a little closer to alt-country.
They're playing tomorrow night at the Viper Room in Hollywood, California - so if you want to be on the guest list, they ask that you send them a message. More details listed here.
Since I'm collector, I did like the packaging of Marquis CD. The case looks like a mock-up of an old 70s record. It's slightly larger than a typical CD jewel case, and it folds in two to reveal lyrics. I'm not sure if this is just a limited press run, but it only cost $10.
There were some suggested tracks ("Breaking Up Mine", "Dance Classes for a Madame", and "Watch It Fall"), but as usual, for some reason, I was more drawn to songs like "Pistol" & "Privateer" (although all the songs are worth checking out on Virb).
I like the part in "Pistol", where it goes: "It's a line you'll come to hate/Don't Worry about that" (there is a shift in these two lines that I think sounds like a really good country-pop song). The acoustic guitar is played by Andy Carpenter.
I also liked "Privateer" because it features some excellent usage of banjo and melodica (I originally thought it was a plain old harmonica).
I was actually glad to see that they're one of the few bands that's trying to pimp their users to virb, rather than myspace (although they do have an account there as well).
11/25/2007 14:42:54
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