It List: Tuesday
Sorry there's no neat picture today, Blogger wouldn't cooperate...
Kayo Dot/Trifle Tower/Great Tyrant/Vorvadoss (Rubber Gloves): Kayo Dot are one of those bands that sound pretty suspect on paper; avant-metal mixed with Classical composition technique, decidedly non-rock instruments thrown in, someone in charge of gamelan etc. In fact it perfectly fits the description of what an old studio hand called "Duck Call bands," or any band on Tzadik that had John Zorn tacked onto their album credits, simply for adding duck call to one of their kitchen sink jazz-metal-classical recordings. To think there was a time, mostly in my teen years, where I bought ANYTHING on Tzadik or Avant.
You learn to break that habit the hard way.
Well, the good news is that Kayo Dot are not at all one of those cute, overly clever groups that really wants you to be impressed by the fact they can go from bossa nova to thrash in a nanosecond. We have more than enough of that music school dropout shit in the Lone Star State, though I won't name any names. Kayo Dot's music is actually interesting, the transitions in style and form, ominously ooze and stretch out of each piece over the course of eight or more minutes.
Add to that a diverse trio of groups featuring varying levels of darkness and complexity, and you have a fail-proof show.
Disqo Disco (Fallout)
Kayo Dot/Trifle Tower/Great Tyrant/Vorvadoss (Rubber Gloves): Kayo Dot are one of those bands that sound pretty suspect on paper; avant-metal mixed with Classical composition technique, decidedly non-rock instruments thrown in, someone in charge of gamelan etc. In fact it perfectly fits the description of what an old studio hand called "Duck Call bands," or any band on Tzadik that had John Zorn tacked onto their album credits, simply for adding duck call to one of their kitchen sink jazz-metal-classical recordings. To think there was a time, mostly in my teen years, where I bought ANYTHING on Tzadik or Avant.
You learn to break that habit the hard way.
Well, the good news is that Kayo Dot are not at all one of those cute, overly clever groups that really wants you to be impressed by the fact they can go from bossa nova to thrash in a nanosecond. We have more than enough of that music school dropout shit in the Lone Star State, though I won't name any names. Kayo Dot's music is actually interesting, the transitions in style and form, ominously ooze and stretch out of each piece over the course of eight or more minutes.
Add to that a diverse trio of groups featuring varying levels of darkness and complexity, and you have a fail-proof show.
Disqo Disco (Fallout)
posted by Defensive Listening at 2:58 PM
51 Comments:
no, please name names.
no blues brothers?
"We have more than enough of that music schooldrop out shit in the Lone Star State"
hahaha, excellent.
paging Austin...
they're taking away the mcrib! :(
wish i could skip the dicks go and go to the gloves, looks like a good time.
keith p is playing with us tonight as well.
"To think there was a time, mostly in my teen years, where I bought ANYTHING on Tzadik or Avant"
Congrats, that just may be the most pretentious thing I've ever heard
You see 4:33 pm, I am actually aware of that as I type it...
how the hell is that pretentious if it's true
whatevs dl
I really really love how much shit gets thrown around on this site. It makes chuckle on the inside as i smile.
does it?
really sean? oh my, how terribly interesting...
Exactly, 5:19 pm. It is true. But I know it sounds pretentious, and I enjoy the fact that 4:33 is bothered by what I listened to at 16.
Oh, and I remember the exact album that made me stop: It was "Museum of Dannys" by Danny Cohen. It was part of the lunatic fringe series. Maybe I should give it another chance. I might like it now.
There was also a very expensive Derek Bailey and The Ruins disc that wasn't nearly as choice as I thought it would be. That's probably blasphemy in some circles.
derek and the ruins rules my asshole
OMG, AARON G. STOP BEING PRETENTIOUS BY KNOWING WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. HOW ELITIST.
when i was 16 i was listening to NIGGAS WITH ATTITUDE. Fuck that white boy shit.
I had that on vinyl.
actually, there is only one white boy in derek and the ruins....
Yeah, AG, I was going to mention that as well. I mean, DUH.
i was talking about john zorn the jew!
john zorn the jew plays with people of many racial backgrounds....yamatsuka eye, bill frisell, george lewis, cyro baptista, diamanda galas..........
i saw kayo dot like 3 years ago in dallas and drank two 32s of highlife in my friend's car in the parking lot waiting to go in. one of the more epic nights of my life.
my asshole is ruined.
i have that on vinyl
I've never heard any of these bands, they sound like my kind of thing.
Also...
Why did i write "Also..." ? I'm dumb.
kayo dot killed
yeah, they were waaaay rad..
and that violin player?
please...get a little hotter, whydontcha...
awes.
Anybody want to help me fast track to elitism? I was wondering if WSJR or the readers would like to put together a list of recommended listening possibly broken down by genre. I can't find anything I want to listen to anymore.
whoever thought kayo dot killed needs to be killed... that was one of if not the worst things iv ever heard/seen..so fucking boring GOD THAT SUCKED
8:00 what music do you think kills?
Add Swiss House with... you know, the people that usually play there.
When DL was 16, he spent most of his time kicking his mamá out of his room when she would barge in telling him to turn down the Nirvana.
why doesnt austin sound have blog comments as cool as weshot jr? shit they have but one blog comment a month on a good month.
Is my heart healthy enough for sex?
Oh wait. You're not my doctor.
Never mind.
GREAT SHOW ALL AROUND
GOT LAID
Dr. Drew,
I bet you fifty bucks you listen to pop punk, or at least have a pop punk past.
kayo dot was HORRIBLE.
pop punk rules
Only a yoke, don't gotta heave around hurtful accusations.
defensive listening says ...
OMG, AARON G. STOP BEING PRETETIOUS BY KNOWING WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. HOW ELITIST.
Dr. Drew, no hard feelings. Just trying to figure out which Live Journal user you are.
I bet, considering the assumed average age of this blog, that there isn't a person on here without a somewhat tarnished music background. We can all name drop from allmusic until we are blue in the face but in the end it's just patting ourselves on the back and hoping some one compliments our taste (anonymously).
And I still sit around my room listening to Nirvana until my mom yells at me to turn it down. But then again all I wanted was just one Pepsi and she wouldn't give it to me.
holy shit could you be beefheart by chance?
DL IS CAPN BEEFHEART PASS IT ON
DL HAS A HEART-SHAPED BOX PASS IT ON
you need to shut the fuck up PASS IT ON...
PISS IT ON
bang a gong...
Fela kuti kicks any music named dropped on here. so fuck off.
not so much. nobody fucks w/paul.
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