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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
carrotosaurus:
Oberhofer - oO0OoO0Oo [2009]
Lo-fi indie pop in the same vein as Wavves, Girls, The Drums etc. Probably the next big thing:
--- Quote ---He's the unassuming rocker in their midst: Brad Oberhofer stunned colleagues at Matador Records, where he works as an intern, when he played them a demo of a few songs he had recorded.
Now the 19-year-old NYU student has landed one of them, "Away FRM U," on a Paste magazine CD sampler -- a rare feat for an unsigned artist nobody's yet heard of -- played a CMJ showcase hosted by Hartford/Brooklyn music promoter Natalie Noyes and has generated intense interest among music-biz types in New York for his vibrant, raucous indie-rock sound.
"I have not seen someone with as much potential as he has," says one of those Matador colleagues, Thom Williams, who with a friend has been assisting Oberhofer. "Give him a year or two and he could be a MGMT figure."
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--- Quote from: scarred on 22 Nov 2009, 21:49 ---Grand Hallway - Promenade [2009]
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Nice, been looking for this. Grand indeed!
glyphic:
Ok, guys. I haven't ever posted anything here. This is also my first time using mediaf!re. Please alert me to any errors.
--- Quote ---Confession time: I am a fickle, vacuous consumer whore who will only truly listen to something when popular culture tells me I should. With their debut record, Ruin Everything!, Athens, GA’s We Versus The Shark have allowed me see this outstanding flaw. I’m happy to say that over the course of ten tracks bursting with flavor and good times, Ruin Everything! facilitated my slow, arduous recovery process.
So the story goes, Mr P sent me a package with CDs to review, and among the batch was this We Versus The Shark album. I popped it in (probably in a bad mood), listened to the first few bars of "You Don’t Have To Kick It" and promptly discarded it. All I remember hearing were disco beats and nondescript shouting over some chicken-scratch guitar. Exasperated, I cried, "I’ve heard it before!"
Over the next few months, I kept seeing We Versus The Shark’s name here and there, and after a few friends kept chatting them up, I decided to give Ruin Everything! another chance. I re-listened to "You Don’t Have To Kick It," and though the ever-present disco beats and shouting were firmly in place, I also unearthed found sounds, malfunctioning electronics, jagged guitar parts (not in the way most of their peers take this route—think more Dazzling Killmen math and less Gang Of Four skronk), and poignant melodies that rocked the shit out of my sandwich. In short: I found the group to be completely irresistible.
At their most chaotic, We Versus The Shark might recall a more caustic Q And Not U having entirely lost it, or a much more refined version of the Ex, but neither comparison does the group justice. There are certainly obvious reference points scattered about the album, but I found it nearly impossible to describe the band in simple terms. I guess the most accurate description for We Versus The Shark would be "frenzied pop."
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We Versus the Shark - Ruin Everything!
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Edit: Fixed, I hope.
E. Spaceman:
PM Sent
youthcant:
--- Quote from: StaedlerMars on 16 Nov 2009, 09:36 ---So I was trawling through FFFFOUND! and stumbled across this
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there was something on dropular from this thread as well...
do you have an FFFFOUND! account?
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