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September 08, 2004
Spiked My Hair Up So High it Made the Air Scream?
Nineteen Ninety-now - Love Won't Be Enough
The Impossibles, from Austin, TX are maybe my one unembarrassed ska-punk/emo passion. They broke up in mid-2002, taped their last show and put it out on DVD with a hilarious commentary track (sample quote: we perfected music?). Then, last year, Gabe and Rory, the two main singers, put out a record as Slowreader, which deserves every favorable comparison to Elliott Smith and Ben Folds that was thrown at it. So melodic! Sickly affecting! The lead-off track makes me weep like a thousand croup-infected babies. Or a hundred mom-daughter pairs watching "Terms of Endearment". You get the idea. Now Rory is producing records of various crazy bands in TX, and in the meantime has been trying to write some solo material. This is the first mp3 from Nineteen Ninety-Now, his first real post-Impossibles band. Although the name is somewhat unfortunate (vaguely reminiscent of what I imagine could have been a brand name for jeans marketed with safe-sex overtones), this song is pretty fantastic: lockstep guitars, jittery beat, rock scream (just one!), with a dance-groove bridge smeared in the middle. Dowload it as hard as you can and then look forward to the record release in 2006, maybe 7. You'll be so ahead of the curve. Tomorrow: a track from Panda Bear's new record, unless someone else beats me to it, or shuts me down. Or I forget.
Posted by matt at September 8, 2004 02:25 AM