Friends and NMEs: Chew Lips
Today begins the soldout #SXSW adventure. Every year, apparently, hundreds of new bands are plucked from the Austin wreckage and saved from their menial lives as baristas and music bloggers and thrust into the spotlight of fame, fortune, and buying drinks for music bloggers.
Personally, of this relatively unknown or new-to-American-soil bands, I'm really excited to check out Iamamiwhoami Chew Lips, an NME buzz band that actually seems to hold up to the hype coming at them from across the pond.
Chew Lips: Slick
"Slick" is an incredible modern pop song-with the fuzzed out, bass-heavy breakdown that culminates in a giant, hands-in-the-air TRANCE-endant "rave-'til-end". Fuck, I'll unabashedly label it a perfect pop song.
And then, the video for "Karen":
Ok, Chew Lips, you are a band that entice me aurally but confuse me visually. I don't get the outfits, and I don't get what's going on in the video for "Karen" (is it about Karen Carpenter? Is it about Karen O? Is it about Karen...shit, those are all the Karens). Maybe seeing them live at one of the five #SXSW shows they're doing will explain things. Either way, their album Unicorn is a 2010 jam.
(Plus, it is called Unicorn. Only Patrick Wolf can get away with that shit, so bonus points to them.)
Russ
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