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04/03/09 Aquarium Fargo, ND
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It's official: I'm now accepting live music assignments, now that it's not snowing.
First Communion Afterparty (myspace) looks like a pack of gypsies doing spacerock for their hippy listeners, at least they tried to bring some 'sun' into Minnesota with their two opening acts: Daughters of the Sun (myspace) and Sleepy Sun official/myspace). It should be noted that Daughters of the Sun are also from Minneapolis and actually have no women, which makes it doubly ironic.
Since I was there for San Francisco's Sleepy Sun, I did manage to listen to their album, Embrace to get an idea of what to expect. I think I prefer their slower songs, such as "Duet With The Northern Sky" and "Lord" - mostly for clearly hearing the vocals, but as expected, these don't make for good live performances (since it seems the key here is to make people rock out to their psychedelic space rock).
Surprisingly, they had a pretty short setlist (as did Daughters with I think only four or five songs), but they seem to stretch out each song to about 6+ minutes, especially with the drone-like guitar and experimental effects usually reserved towards the end of each song. I particularly liked how "White Dove" and "New Age" ended on their live set.
If they're not singing (and sometime harmonica), Bret, with his tongue out, and Rachael thrashing her head in the picture pretty much sums up what the band is about: just having a great time.
They're heading to Fargo tomorrow (today), which I thought was still a flood disaster zone? They're also heading into Europe and Italy, so be sure to catch them if you're in the UK. Incidentally, the album won't be released in the UK until May 2009, presumably because they're landing in the UK just time time for the ATP Festival in early May. Details of the UK records be seen on ATP's website.
By the way, iTunes spotlighted the band as "Indie Spotlight Best of 2008" among not-so-indie Radiohead and Deerhunter, so they are in great company, and it would be interesting to see where their music takes them in the future.
First Communion Afterparty (myspace) looks like a pack of gypsies doing spacerock for their hippy listeners, at least they tried to bring some 'sun' into Minnesota with their two opening acts: Daughters of the Sun (myspace) and Sleepy Sun official/myspace). It should be noted that Daughters of the Sun are also from Minneapolis and actually have no women, which makes it doubly ironic.
Since I was there for San Francisco's Sleepy Sun, I did manage to listen to their album, Embrace to get an idea of what to expect. I think I prefer their slower songs, such as "Duet With The Northern Sky" and "Lord" - mostly for clearly hearing the vocals, but as expected, these don't make for good live performances (since it seems the key here is to make people rock out to their psychedelic space rock).
Surprisingly, they had a pretty short setlist (as did Daughters with I think only four or five songs), but they seem to stretch out each song to about 6+ minutes, especially with the drone-like guitar and experimental effects usually reserved towards the end of each song. I particularly liked how "White Dove" and "New Age" ended on their live set.
They're heading to Fargo tomorrow (today), which I thought was still a flood disaster zone? They're also heading into Europe and Italy, so be sure to catch them if you're in the UK. Incidentally, the album won't be released in the UK until May 2009, presumably because they're landing in the UK just time time for the ATP Festival in early May. Details of the UK records be seen on ATP's website.
By the way, iTunes spotlighted the band as "Indie Spotlight Best of 2008" among not-so-indie Radiohead and Deerhunter, so they are in great company, and it would be interesting to see where their music takes them in the future.
04/03/2009 10:57:32 ♥ vu (
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