New Music: What’s Up? – Content Imagination
posted ~ July 12th, 2009. Filed under: Music Reviews, Uncategorized.
Getting right along with the storm of new music about which I promised to preach, I give you, What’s Up? Calling Portland their home, What’s Up? is relatively new to the scene. Really, actually they came the fuck out of nowhere and are blowing up quick. I kept hearing their name around town and decided to catch their set at the Artistery a few months back which also happened to be their album release show for their debut Content Imagination. They crushed it. Delivering methodically smart crunch math, these guys know how to play. Their songs have the unique and infinitely desirable quality of harnessing complex time signatures and alien song structure and still getting the listener to bob their head. The beat, although complex, really fuckin drives. They hold it together and make distorted math instrumentals accessible to the everyman, in a good way. They’re currently doing a bunch of west coast dates with Dirty Projectors and then the lucky assholes fly to Europe for another tour with more awesome bands like Deerhoof. Definitely give this record a try, out on Obey Your Brain… and how about that album cover? SO dope.
What’s Up – Season’s Greetings
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July 29th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
What’s Up is rock solid, I’ve seen them a couple times now. I am not cool enough to have a record player, unfortunately, though.
August 3rd, 2009 at 10:07 am
You ARE cool enough, Jameson, you are.