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Thursday, October 08, 2009 The Sweetest Sounding Jerk  I had the good fortune last month of seeing up-and-coming band The Drums play at InSound's anniversary party and, wow, was I impressed. Though these guys have been around for only a few months (during which time people have blogged the shit out of them), they have already perfected a pretty spot-on warmvibes-meets-80s-via-Cure/Wham/etc that is cool and rather delightful. Much like ice cream, in fact. At the point when I saw them, I hadn't yet heard a note of their music, but there was one particular moment in the show where things just really went to another level and now, after having downloaded their new EP (the first release by the band), I know that that moment was during the song "Don't Be a Jerk, Jonny". This song carries all the good feeling of all six Drums songs, but in particular the cooing female back-up vox and singer Jonathan Pierce's response to them chilled my bones, and the bridge breakdown gives a positively life-affirming toe-tapping straight-out-of-a-John-Hughes-movie jump on a fucking table YES! that just brings me to climax. And while this song sounds great on record, I was stunned at the way live they brought the volume and energy way up and the roof therefore completely off. Most folks have cited "Let's Go Surfing" as the touchstone point of the band but I don't think it has anything on the majesty of "Jonny". I can see a variety of ways in which I will either tire of this band or else they might fail to do anything else worthy, but for now I'm excited. I have taken the bait and wait in bated breath for what comes next. Also great: "Make You Mine" (really really great) and "Submarine" LISTEN: The Drums - "Don't Be a Jerk, Jonny", from Summertime! EP posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 10/08/2009 05:51:00 PM 1 comments |
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Wow, nice, thanks for this. The first thing I've read that has made me finally listen! ;-)
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