Last Night Triumph of Lethargy, Feral Children, A Gun That Shoots Knives, 1-2-1-2 @ the Comet
posted by on April 8 at 13:54 PM
Can someone help me out with Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death? Because judging from what I saw at the Comet last night, the band is awful and is somehow embraced for its awfulness. Is it holdover love for Murder City Devils? Is it a clothesless emperor thing? Their headlining set was indulgent, meandering, and grating, highlighted by guitarist Corey Brewer chucking his guitar at the Comet’s brick wall AT THE END OF THE FIRST SONG. It was an act of pointless, stupid defiance that happened to perfectly characterize the music. “Songs” started and stopped seemingly at random and went nowhere in between. And yet people stood around rapt as the drummer pounded Viking-rowboat rhythms with mallets on a bass drum and a saxophonist skronked out his unprovoked animosity towards anything remotely ear-pleasing. Spencer Moody is an intense personality onstage, I’ll give him that, but that’s all I’ll give him.
TOLSATD was especially disappointing compared to the other bands on the bill. Feral Children played convulsive, percussive, skuzzed-out rock, as primal as a caveman fertility ritual. They sounded like Modest Mouse channeling Animal Collective, chanting and banging and occasionally alighting into ecstatic melody. They managed to overcome microphone troubles through sheer energy.
A Gun That Shoots Knives came out dressed for Halloween and played like it too, hopping from genre to genre like coked-up swingers swapping fuckbuddies. A little aggro-rock, a little pogo-ready pop, a little caffeinated country, a little more pogo-ready pop—they stretched and snapped their tunes like rubber bands. Put ‘em on stage at Bonnaroo and they’d be called a jam band; here in Seattle it’s Tourette’s-flavored art-pop at its most spastic.
1-2-1-2 played one of their first official gigs ever and sounded a little green but also hinted at their potential. Krautrocking with a deft rhythm section and psychedelic shading from their keysman, they had some of the crowd moving despite the earliness of their set.
Three out of four ain’t bad, I guess.
You could come to the High Dive tomorrow (monday the 9th) and we'll try to cleanse your pallet. We being Kings of the Wing People. We go on at 9PM. I have to say, it takes some guts to ask you to come after how you ripped these bands.
Chris
stoked for feral children at the ss marie antionette tonight!
"embraced for its awfulness"...
INDEED... BY THEIR ***FRIENDS***
(and the friends of those friends,
who may just be playing along, etc)
no one else really gives a shit...
;-)
Thank you for writing this; I've been wondering the deal is too. I haven't seen them live, but their record is underwhelming to say the least.
I've yet to see TOLSATD live, but I like the dissonant sounds they've recorded quite a bit.
I think their are bigger crimes against music happening in this town.
ummm how come nobody mentions the fact that the comet HAD NO BEER or working toilets that night? Band schmand that place was ridic!
oh shit, youre totally right. i was drinking jameson all night and never used the toilet so it didnt hit me that hard, but it was bottle-beer only.
Yeah not just any bottled beer though...really random bottled beer. Like you just had to take what they gave you...budweiser select? corona? Did staff byob random beers from home to sell are you kidding me?
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