I saw this great band last night at The Mezzanine here in San Francisco - Do Make Say Think. I hadn't heard them before, but since I've been listening to Explosions in the Sky's All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone non-stop since mid-summer, I was won over pretty quickly.
First of all, this band has two drummers. All told, there were eight people on stage. What were the other six people playing? Two guitars, a bass, a violin, a trumpet, and a saxaphone...at least that's what I saw at one point. At another point, there were two trumpets and a sax. All the horns gave me a bit of a Calexico flashback. The weed also helped with that. I generally like my psychedelia with a tad less math, and a smidge more noise, but these guys were undeniably good. I tend to avoid talking or writiing about music very much. My excuse is that listening to music is too much of an emotional experience. The truth is that I'm just not that good at it. Since I'm neither very interested nor very capable of being clinically critical about music, I''d prefer to write metaphorically to describe the feelings a song elicits without sounding too...florid. I'm gonna work on that. In the meantime, how hard is it to just provide a link so you can check it out for yourselves? Well, the challenge is, of course, is finding a clip worth sharing. It's always a choice between video quality and audio quality, isn't it? And usually neither are that great.
For better or worse, you can't find these guys on iTunes. It troubles my need for instant, legal, gratification. I could buy their CDs online, but that somehow seems worse than an illegal download. It would be a crime for me not to stroll down to Aquarius Records and pick some of this up with my own two hands. You and I both, dear reader, could order these discs directly from the Aquarius website, but since I cannot link you directly to the pages of interest, I can only give you general guidance. Now that I think of it, iTunes doesn't allow me to do this, either. So many things are wrong with the business of selling music.
