Black Eyes album

[sueandnotu]

Hey Paige and Walkman:
 Pitchfork seemed to like Black Eyes' new album, and this little blurb reminded me of your reviews of the live shows:
 
 "Black Eyes' live show is a confounding orb of energy: two drum kits, sometimes a third percussionist, two bassists, two vocalists, and a rotation of variable instruments. To the human eye, they're a funhouse of tiny, screaming singers twitching about with the herky-jerky motion of flipbook animation. They're a D.C. five-piece that sounds like ten (or at least moves like that many), and they promote an equally convulsive squawking of rhythmic, sometimes experimental and gauzy, dubby post-punk that sits on the same sonic fence as Savage Republic and Swell Maps."

[sueandnotu]

Ay yi yi
 
 I see that was actually an old review.
 
 I am *sooo* two months ago...

[mjnova]

Originally posted by SueAndNotU:
  Ay yi yi
 
 I see that was actually an old review.
 
 I am *sooo* two months ago...

It was their midyear catch up. Nice to see Apes and Black Eyes get some props.  DC don't get much love.  And I think Black Eyes live is much better than the album, not that it's a bad album by any means.

[Jaguär]

In all fairness, www.Insound.com are incredibly supportive of the Baltimore/DC music scene. (I know it's a different site, for any of you anal types.) They amaze me sometimes concering this that it makes me think that somebody there is from this area and keeps close ties. Just another reason to try to support that sight when you can. They've had Black Eyes, The Apes, The Oranges Band, Oxes and loads of others up at their site as soon as they were released. Also, they usually include them as one of their features on their home page.

[kurosawa-b/w]

I'm a big fan of Insound -especially their weekly newsletters.

[paige]

Originally posted by SueAndNotU:
  Hey Paige and Walkman:
 Pitchfork seemed to like Black Eyes' new album, and this little blurb reminded me of your reviews of the live shows:
 
 "Black Eyes' live show is a confounding orb of energy: two drum kits, sometimes a third percussionist, two bassists, two vocalists, and a rotation of variable instruments. To the human eye, they're a funhouse of tiny, screaming singers twitching about with the herky-jerky motion of flipbook animation. They're a D.C. five-piece that sounds like ten (or at least moves like that many), and they promote an equally convulsive squawking of rhythmic, sometimes experimental and gauzy, dubby post-punk that sits on the same sonic fence as Savage Republic and Swell Maps."

awesome! thank you! good stuff.