Woebot
Well-known member
.....surely are to the 00s what The Velvet Underground were to the mid seventies!
Think about it. "The Messy Jessy Fiesta" (The Velvet Underground and Nico) and "Haus De Snaus" (White Light, White Heat) are the exemplars of what music should and could be like in the near future. I reckon part of the reason The Animal Collective have an aura of fascination, of latent possibilities is the way they echo that music. Profane and perverse, learned yet not stuffy (like practically all other Electronica), unimaginably eliptical, not tied to bulwarks like Rock or Rave (people are still talking about the collision of these two, i mean how irrelevant has this been since Liquid Liquid and 1980!!!!), in essence pungent with character and possibility.
Then theres the solo records of Kevin and Blevin, which are the equal of the stuff Lou Reed and John Cale put out in the seventies. With an wholly attractive existential weariness along the lines of "you fools still don't know what the fuck we're talking about".
Have you heard blevin's "Magic Maple" yet? (Thanks Derek!) Its a complete masterpiece, and I use that term advisedly. So much to celebrate, but "Last Track" must be about the only post-ardkore tune that REALLY conveys the rushed up murkiness of the rave. Then it struck me that Kevin's last one was fantastic as well. The way their work seems in step (like a lurchy tango) even though they're not collaborating is just the way Cale and Reeds records must have appeared in the years leading up to punk and beyond.
Both websites sheer genius:
http://www.kevyb.com/
http://blevin.lsr1.com/birds/
and here:
http://www.kevyb.com/eatmyinfo.html
Kevin's playing Live in London in October and I reckon I'm going to go down.
And Sagan! Itching to here that stuff now. On a Prog Rock tip (strokes beard and looks to the wings)
Think about it. "The Messy Jessy Fiesta" (The Velvet Underground and Nico) and "Haus De Snaus" (White Light, White Heat) are the exemplars of what music should and could be like in the near future. I reckon part of the reason The Animal Collective have an aura of fascination, of latent possibilities is the way they echo that music. Profane and perverse, learned yet not stuffy (like practically all other Electronica), unimaginably eliptical, not tied to bulwarks like Rock or Rave (people are still talking about the collision of these two, i mean how irrelevant has this been since Liquid Liquid and 1980!!!!), in essence pungent with character and possibility.
Then theres the solo records of Kevin and Blevin, which are the equal of the stuff Lou Reed and John Cale put out in the seventies. With an wholly attractive existential weariness along the lines of "you fools still don't know what the fuck we're talking about".
Have you heard blevin's "Magic Maple" yet? (Thanks Derek!) Its a complete masterpiece, and I use that term advisedly. So much to celebrate, but "Last Track" must be about the only post-ardkore tune that REALLY conveys the rushed up murkiness of the rave. Then it struck me that Kevin's last one was fantastic as well. The way their work seems in step (like a lurchy tango) even though they're not collaborating is just the way Cale and Reeds records must have appeared in the years leading up to punk and beyond.
Both websites sheer genius:
http://www.kevyb.com/
http://blevin.lsr1.com/birds/
and here:
http://www.kevyb.com/eatmyinfo.html
Kevin's playing Live in London in October and I reckon I'm going to go down.
And Sagan! Itching to here that stuff now. On a Prog Rock tip (strokes beard and looks to the wings)
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