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Friday, May 28, 2010
Album / Upcoming Now THIS Is What an Exohxo Record Should Sound Like!
Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:59 PM
Sonically. Not literally.
There are nearly 30 people playing and singing on the band’s new EP The Pitfalls, the Possibilities, the Peril and the Promise. Songs flirt with the Hold Steady's hooks (see "Third or Fourth Time"), Weezer's riffs ("Smile and Walk Away"), and the Arcade Fire's melodies (opening track "Take Hold") while waves of violins, violas, French horns, trumpets, flutes, oboes, percussion, and voices—lots and lots of voices—all build to big, infectious choruses.
You can listen to the new songs for free here. They make this crappy weather almost bearable.
Exohxo play Neumos Thursday, June 3, with Hockey and Kids and Animals (bonus: it was just recently changed from 21+ to all ages). You can buy tickets here.
Members of Exohoxo are performing with the Seattle Rock Orchestra at Sasquatch! this weekend, doing an encore performance of the Arcade Fire tribute they nailed last fall. See it at the Bigfoot stage on Monday, May 31 at 2:20 pm.
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