Friday Tunes 6
Hallo.
For Thanksgiving, I’m featuring a band that I’m thankful for: Home. They don’t have a website, they don’t have a MySpace, and Googling them results in a lot of weird websites that have reviewed some of their albums in the past, but not much more. No one talks about Home anymore, and that makes me sad. They’ve disbanded, with several of their members now more focused on their new endeavor, Leels, but I still remember when I came across 1996’s Elf Gulf Bore Waltz in a record store and purchased it based on the cover art alone. I was not disappointed. From Trouser Press:
With a sensibility that falls somewhere between the Residents and Can, this determinedly loopy Florida quartet likes nothing better than a good beer-bong-fueled jam session — the results of which they capture in real time, letting the audience handle the editing process later on its own.
They get compared to Pavement and Guided By Voices quite a bit as well. These days, it’s hard to find their stuff in a record store, but you can (oddly enough, considering there’s very little available regarding them on the web) get all of their CDs via Amazon. I highly recommend Elf Gulf Bore Waltz, even though lots of people think it’s one of the most disorganized of their recordings, because it perfectly captures their quirky, lo-fi sound that reminded me of Pavement without being one of those annoying bands that wanted to sound like Pavement in the 90’s.
I also stumbled across a Rogue Wave version of Nirvana’s “On a Plain” this week. I honestly don’t remember where I found it, but it’s interesting, and I like it.
This Thanksgiving, I am also thankful for weird indie videos. Check ‘em out, they’re all great no matter how I make fun of them:
Smoke pot much?
Like Wes Anderson much?
Art school much?
OMG CUTE MUCH?
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