New Music Files #2
I can distinctly recall walking into the old Newbury Comics in Burlington, back in the 1992, to buy some new CDs and hearing the Pixies for the first time. I was really into the Grateful Dead at that time so the Pixies sounds wasn't in my sweet spot but the store was playing Surfa Rosa/Come on Pilgram and it was so full of new energy and sounds that I bought a copy then and there.
I had the same experience in reverse yesterday, though sadly not in a cool record store. I discovered the Vermont duo MV & EE. I got the lead from a music blogger Aquarium Drunkard (great name by the way) via the HypeMachine plugin for Spotify. If you've not used HypeMachine you should give it a shot. They supply curated playlists created by various music geeks. It's well worth checking out.
The MV & EE bio on Spotify describes them as a "Vermont-based neo-psychedelic lo-fi experimental rock collective". That doesn't exactly describe my current musical sweet spot but as soon as I heard them I became a fan. I've not heard anything quite like them before. It's raw and lives on a the edge of musicality, probably too closely for a lot of people, but I found it really invigorating. If you like hearing new things give them a listen.
I had the same experience in reverse yesterday, though sadly not in a cool record store. I discovered the Vermont duo MV & EE. I got the lead from a music blogger Aquarium Drunkard (great name by the way) via the HypeMachine plugin for Spotify. If you've not used HypeMachine you should give it a shot. They supply curated playlists created by various music geeks. It's well worth checking out.
The MV & EE bio on Spotify describes them as a "Vermont-based neo-psychedelic lo-fi experimental rock collective". That doesn't exactly describe my current musical sweet spot but as soon as I heard them I became a fan. I've not heard anything quite like them before. It's raw and lives on a the edge of musicality, probably too closely for a lot of people, but I found it really invigorating. If you like hearing new things give them a listen.
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