Word: ia
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...cheap alternative to having a car, quickly takes a Bostonian from place to place, and allows a rider to enjoy the guitar stylings of tone-deaf singers, but the real reason I ride the T is that my cell phone cant ring. While sitting on the T, Ia Harvard student with papers to write, activities to activitate, and roommates to gossip withhave license to do absolutely nothing...
...IA proved themselves to be more than competent musicians as sprawling keyboard textures spiraled through twisted and dissonant slap-bass and steady, aggressive drums...
...IA made good use of stop time and breaks to keep the tunes from becoming monotonous or overly homogenous. The crowd seemed to greatly enjoy the show and the IA definitely had good stage presence and frequently asked for audience interaction...
...IA sounds vaguely like the Spooks on the demo but their other, more instrumentally interesting influences are nowhere to be found...
Maybe it’s just the enjoyment on the musician’s faces or the glance from drummer to bass player as they shift tempos, but the IA was far more interesting that night in the Cage than on CD. Perhaps with a slight cross-pollination of sorts, their next studio attempt can be as diversely flavored and as sonically interesting as their live performances...