Word: bandness
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...quality, annoying fans interacting—due to the setting in which these songs were recorded. Ultimately, it’s more like sitting in on a practice session than it is going to a show. The sparse radio studio turns out to be an excellent venue for the band, allowing their lazy, tumbling compositions plenty of room to breathe...
...Portland, Ore.-based trio recorded its 2003 debut, “I Am the Fun Blame Monster,” using “Deeler,” a proprietary computer program written entirely by Brent Knopf, their giddy keyboardist. Knopf’s ace coding allowed the band to compose complex pop suites by looping and sequencing live improvisations into tricky recursive structures. The components of its instrumental arrangements swooped in and fell out of trapdoors, constantly intertwining and unraveling like the title’s dorkily brilliant anagram (“The First Menomena Album?...
...programming, but many of those highlights were played almost flawlessly on stage. This may sound terribly rockist, but you just don’t expect to find bass chops as funky as Harris’ or limb-cracking beats like those meted out by drummer Danny Seim in a band whose recorded output relies so heavily on silicon...
...Oahu” dashed the car-ad ambience of its album version. The stop-and-start guitars and propulsive horns of the night’s one new song recalled Kill the Moonlight-era Spoon crossed with the best aspects of Born to Run-era E Street Band...
...fame, Lowe was already a bit different from his fellow ’05-ers. Not only was he five years older than most of his classmates, but in Britain, he had performed in London’s West End and had lent his musical talents to a boy band, North & South...