SXSW, live in the parking lot
Not like we have enough great stuff from Portland, OR (i.e. Menomena, the Decemberist, YACHT, etc.), I got the pleasure of coming across one of Obey Your Brain’s newer additions, What’s Up. At a first encounter in Austin’s SXSW, we got a little preview of this uncanny trio at an off-by thrift store show. There, they opened up for FMLY FRNDS dd/mm/yyyy and Reverse X-Rays plus more, but when they came on, Cameron and I got to groovin’. This is the experimental music that you so much need. It’s sort of the way you want to wake up in the morning and the way you want to live throughout the day. It keeps me up, like any upper cannot.
Being a short-lived band collectively (formed in early 2008), we see that they are already causing a riff in our music scene by joining a label alongside acts like WHY?, Dan Deacon, Dntel and more. The way they perform is also a sight to be seen. The bassist remains sturdy at his bass, while both the drummer and guitarist pull out arms from nowhere to play their synths. This only adds the best of textures to the sound, performing not only as a “rock group, but also a production entity.”
Lucky for us all, they’ve got a record on the way to debut titled Content Imagination which is due out on May 19th of this year. And here’s your sneak peak to the album!
