New Music Initative 063: San Cisco
May. 12th, 2015 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23I haven't shared a lot of new artists here lately which is fine, but it also kind of freaks me about.
Such is life of course, and although I am not in College Radio and can't know everything, to be honest, with the internet,there's probably never been a better time to discover music than now. There are listener-driven radio stations, as well as streaming broadcasts from great tastemakers, and essentially with blogs, you have every magazine at your disposal as well as places that chronicle everything.
So i start to worry, because these days, I really need to be blown over right away or I am likely to pass on something. That is unfair, because music should have a chance to "grow", but maybe it is the nature of having all these potential stimulus, that I clam up anymore.
Or maybe it's all true. I'm old.
In any case, I try.
One new band that I am digging alot right now is San Cisco. They just released album #2 and as far as I can tell are kinda big thing in Australia.
I am not sure who they remind me of, though almost to a man, every review seems to mention Vampire Weekend. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show up quite a bit too.
I didn't pull the VW infuence right off, though I guess I will acknowledge it. They have big pulsating guitars which drive a lot of their songs, and that is VW-like, though in some ways the pulsating guitars make me think of Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out", while the more 80s-type material sounds like latter Franz.
There is certainly an element of glam that informs them. I think that was a draw from me. Though it is not obviously T Rex or Bowie, but n-th generation Glam. It is more akin to bands like Tribes or Smith Westerns than anything Bolan actually recorded, but we know that's the original source.
They would fit in well with 200x-pop, especially some of the bands who came out of the UK. I have seen one reviewer say Arctic Monkeys, and though I am not sure it's completely accurate, they could probably share the stage with that band and it would not seem strange.
In any case, i am getting this out there, before they hit big. "Run" seems to be making its way up Modern Rock charts and I want to get this on here so i can tell you I heard it first. The chops are there, they're catchy as hell, and it's hard to imagine them not taking the place over by (comparative) storm.
Such is life of course, and although I am not in College Radio and can't know everything, to be honest, with the internet,there's probably never been a better time to discover music than now. There are listener-driven radio stations, as well as streaming broadcasts from great tastemakers, and essentially with blogs, you have every magazine at your disposal as well as places that chronicle everything.
So i start to worry, because these days, I really need to be blown over right away or I am likely to pass on something. That is unfair, because music should have a chance to "grow", but maybe it is the nature of having all these potential stimulus, that I clam up anymore.
Or maybe it's all true. I'm old.
In any case, I try.
One new band that I am digging alot right now is San Cisco. They just released album #2 and as far as I can tell are kinda big thing in Australia.
I am not sure who they remind me of, though almost to a man, every review seems to mention Vampire Weekend. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show up quite a bit too.
I didn't pull the VW infuence right off, though I guess I will acknowledge it. They have big pulsating guitars which drive a lot of their songs, and that is VW-like, though in some ways the pulsating guitars make me think of Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out", while the more 80s-type material sounds like latter Franz.
There is certainly an element of glam that informs them. I think that was a draw from me. Though it is not obviously T Rex or Bowie, but n-th generation Glam. It is more akin to bands like Tribes or Smith Westerns than anything Bolan actually recorded, but we know that's the original source.
They would fit in well with 200x-pop, especially some of the bands who came out of the UK. I have seen one reviewer say Arctic Monkeys, and though I am not sure it's completely accurate, they could probably share the stage with that band and it would not seem strange.
In any case, i am getting this out there, before they hit big. "Run" seems to be making its way up Modern Rock charts and I want to get this on here so i can tell you I heard it first. The chops are there, they're catchy as hell, and it's hard to imagine them not taking the place over by (comparative) storm.
