new believers
Have any of you guys heard this new Elk City record? Our initial reaction was "Hey, this sort of has a '60s girl-group-meets-the-Pixies feel," which in fact sounds much better on record than on paper. Turns out the Village Voice thinks that frontwoman Renee LoBue sounds "like a female Bowie engaged in a three-way with Hope Sandoval and Patti Smith," which may or may not be more accurate than our thing. Either way, "Los Cruzados" is irresistible:
mp3:
Elk City Los Cruzados
Elk City Cherries in the Snow
Elk City's New Believers comes out April 17 on Friendly Fire.
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also:
We stopped by the Vice Records blog for the first time in a while, and we noticed that they'd posted two tracks from the upcoming Chromeo record in the last couple of months. Where the hell have we been? Anyway, I saw an interview with the Chromeo dudes in which they described the new album as "Hall and Oates-y," so you can count us in (ironically speaking, of course):
Chromeo Tenderoni
Chromeo Fancy Footwork
6 comments:
those Chromeo tracks are sweet.
the hall and oates thing probably comes from p-fork's review
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16462-shes-in-control
those Elk City tracks are the jam! can't wait to see that at the Merc in NYC next month.
glad you like the album!
just for the record, "new believers" is actually coming out on april 17.
thanks Dan, post fixed.
love love love "Cherries in the Snow."
I got so excited I went on iTunes last night and got one of their albums from 2002 or so. I'll just say respectfully that they have gotten a lot better since then.
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