i've mentioned frog eyes here before but after seeing them play with beirut recently i feel obligated to mention them again. i had sort of mixed feelings about beirut as you can see below and seeing these guys live confirmed pretty much everything i thought before. beirut was nice but failed to excite. i just couldn't sense any sort of emotional investment in their music. to be fair this was their second show (or so they claimed). but there do seem to be an awful lot of bands these days that are making 'nice' music - sonically, that is. but a lot of it sounds kinda hollow to me. personally, i blame sufjan. though i wouldn't lump in with these bands. but i think he has set the trend, accidentally, by using 'different' instruments and i think some people miss the point and mistakenly think sufjan's music is good because he plays a banjo. i guess beirut isn't the worst offender - i still like them but i just wished they'd inject some passion into the music. to me, someone like patrick wolf, another youngster, would be far more deserving of the hype.
or frog eyes. this post was supposed to be about frog eyes but all i want to say is frog eyes does exactly what beirut is missing, they are raw and they spit passion. a song from the folded palm is above. and, oh, since these guys deserve some hype - this is spencer krug's (wolf parade) other (sunset rubdown), other band. though i suspect this is more carey mercer's band - who incidentally reminds me of screaming jay hawkins...
