SOUNDTRACK: MOUNT KIMBIE-Tiny Desk Concert #121 (April 18, 2011).
After subscribing to the NPR Podcasts, I found out that every few days, a new concert gets downloaded to my folder (which is pretty cool, but which I must check on from time to time so I don’t fill my machine!).
This Tiny Desk concert came along unannounced by a band I’d never heard of. I’m not planning to listen to every concert that comes along, but this band seemed interesting. Mount Kimbie’s Crooks and Lovers made the NPR list of “Albums We Missed in 2010” and the song they play there “Before I Move Off” is a fun and twisted song of blips and bleeps set to a catchy beat. About mid way, the samples (cut up and unrecognizable) come in and add a new (almost creepy) texture to this song.
This concert reveals the less “programmed” side of the band as there is an electric guitar and (evidently from the notes) a live drum. What’s most interesting about these songs is that even after a few minutes of riff and repeat, they throw something in that changes things. Like the vocals (!) on “Maybes” (which frankly don’t live up to the rest of the song) that begin in the last-minute of a 5 minute song. (The opening noises are really great).
The other two tracks “Ode to Bear” and “Field” are good, interesting electronic tracks. But after a couple of listens to the show, I was actually growing a little bored with them. It wa s good introduction, but that’s probably as far as it will go for me and Mount Kimbie.
[READ: April 6, 2011] “Two Fables”
A fable is defined as “a short story to teach a moral lesson.” Given this definition, I would say that these stories failed as fables. I didn’t get any kind of moral lesson from either of them. Indeed, I have a hard time with a lot of things that claim to be modern fables if only because of the definition…a vague or missing moral seems to me that it fails as a fable. (more…)
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