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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
In March, in the midst of performing as part of the yearly Austin, Texas music-industry grind known as SXSW, DIIV frontman Zachary Cole Smith made the following statement on his band’s blog: “Here, the music comes last…The ‘music’ element is all a front, it’s the first thing to be compromised. Corporate money everywhere but in the hands of the artists, at what is really just a glorified corporate networking party. Drunk corporate goons and other industry vampires and cocaine. Everyone is drunk, being cool. ‘Official’ bureaucracy and all their mindless rules. Branding, branding, branding. It’s bullshit…sorry.”
As demonstrated by the battle cry/thesis statement “Generational Synthetic,” Beach Fossils’ second full-length Clash the Truth is a call to arms. (Read More)
Clad in an oversized knit sweater, his bleach-blond hair pointing at a half-dozen different angles, DIIV frontman Z. Cole Smith prefaces our chat with a disclaimer: He never expected the band to go anywhere.
:.. Soft Metals: Soft Metals (Captured Tracks) | Under The Radar ..:
Hypnotic. It’s an easy starting point to describe what Soft Metals vocalist Patricia Hall and keyboardist Ian Hicks accomplish with their self-titled debut. All trance beats and breathy vocals; theirs is an aggressive argument for a return to the dance floor—seemingly lost in the haze of last year’s don’t-call-it-chillwave-wave. But while the band’s siren call starts as inviting, there is little variation to these 10 tracks—making the songs often feel monotonous rather than pleasantly endless.
