See-thru folk, Willie Nelson-flooring fusion, and "get hyped for the cyph, yo!"
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See-thru folk, Willie Nelson-flooring fusion, and "get hyped for the cyph, yo!"
Killer Bob is not an accessible band. In fact, in front of a small but animated crowd of experimental music enthusiasts at Music House on Friday, it oftentimes felt like they specifically went out of their way not to be accessible. Their lead vocalist and guitarist, aptly named (you guessed it!) Bob, doesn’t sing so much as urgently repeat barely audible words into the microphone. Their music, which can fairly accurately be described as modern day Swans on meth, ranges from trance inducing to downright cacophonous, and sometimes makes the transition between the two in a matter of seconds.
The morning after their raucous show at Eclectic, Aural Wes's Chris Gortmaker headed to O'Rourke's Diner for brunch with the Harlem hip-hop group Ratking. Over a veritable mountain of brunch-foods, discussion ranged from Ratking's creative process to Pangaea and dinosaurs. A little known link between Aphex Twin and Cheef Keef emerged. Chris never got the toast he ordered...
It soars, shivers, and slides. It squeaks around the edges, wraps around you head, and winds itself up into you ears. Unrestrained in its innocence, it's joyous and intimate. So much so that it can surprise you at first. Steve Marion's guitar whispers and howls at the same time.
Marion's psychedelic, surfy, afrobeat-infused instrumental project Delicate Steve rose from his New Jersey bedroom to stages shared with acts like The Dirty Projectors and Sigur Ros.
Hailing from Washington state, Mount Eerie (the moniker for principal member Phil Elverum and accompanying member Carson Churchill) descended on Wesleyan’s Buddhist House on Sunday, September 21 for an intimate, stripped-down show attended by devoted fans and mere music aficionados alike. Elverum, who was previously frontman of the lo-fi Olympia-based group The Microphones, started Mount Eerie in September of 2003 after he believed his previous project to be completed.
Know what's good this weekend. Here's the Weekend Preview: Aural Wes's weekly serving of music happenings on campus. Wesleyan artists kick off the weekend with back to back intimate Earth House events and a Friday night Art House-opening showcase. Saturday's Planet Hip Hop Festival has afternoon workshops and an evening concert featuring Muslim women who are breaking new ground in the genre. "DMV-bred" emcee Goldlink heads to Psi U Saturday night and indie lo-fi Mount Eerie plays Sunday night in Memorial Chapel.
Sophomore band Thatcher just dropped "For Today," the first track off of their eponymous debut EP. Thatcher (Jesse Cohen, Ryan Breen, Alex Lee, and Chris Gortmaker) played a sweaty guerrilla show in the Westco Triple on the last day of school and now return with this 5-track album, recorded in a hot-Boston-baked-bean basement. These post-punkers have an EP-release show on the 12th. In the meantime, hit up their Bandcamp and check out the new track.
