i love that his music translates so well into 'real' chords that aren't terribly heavily sythesized. i think this is the missing link, like all of this glow-fi music will soon play this way. since most simlar acts are 1-2 person groups, maybe they will just tour with guitars and a handfull of pedals rather than a shitload of expensive drum machines/midi keyboards/laptops/whatnot. if any of these bands survive the test of time i guess we'll see.
i saw washed out and small black play in philadelphia, they were really good. but the live bass player seemed really out of place. maybe it was his place within four other people with synthesizers (two other small black guys, ernest 'washed out' greene, and the small black drummer bro), but it was pretty awkward. its as though they want to play completely 'live' music rather than just programming their machines and then bouncing around behind their set-ups.
that's a video of the show, it's a pretty shitty video. the guy in the back with the green shirt on is ernest greene, the guy in front of him is one of the bros from small black. you can clearly observe the 'chill-bounce' that greene does throughout the show, small black bros did the bounce earlier in the show and the toro y moi bro does the bounce in lots of his live videos. i think i'd rather see toro y moi live, though washed out was fun.
in other news:
i'm waiting patiently for auction time to run out on a five record glenn miller's army air force band compilation. idk how much i'm willing to pay for it, but i want it. total wwII binge.
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