Great little comp from Secret Seven, compiling the brightest lights of SF's psychedelic garage pop scene...Vetiver, Grass Widow's Hannah Lew, Chuck Prophet, Kelley Stoltz, Fresh & Onlys' Tim Cohen and Wymond Miles, Ty Seagall, the Papercuts and Paula Frazier. You can stream the whole damn thing here:
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
NOT FREAKY, NOT FOLKY Vetiver
Vetiver’s new album, The Errant Charm, totally won me over, so I spent a little time talking to Andy Cabic and his long-time producer Thom Monahan about it for Blurt.
"When a critic calls Vetiver a leading freak folk band, that, to me, immediately marks them as not knowing what they're talking about," says Andy Cabic, the band's singer and songwriter. Yes, it's true that Cabic once lived in the same house as Devendra Banhart, that the two sometimes wrote songs together and that Banhart sang on the first Vetiver album. It is also a fact that Cabics' band was included on the genre-defining compilation Golden Apples of the Sun and played on a 2004 tour with Banhart and Joanna Newsom that was memorialized in Kevin Barker's documentary The Family Jams.
And yet, there is nothing remotely folky about Cabic's fifth and best album, The Errant Charm, a landmark of understated, electronically-enhanced pop. Adds Cabic, "I've never really thought of us as a folk band and I never really felt any affinity for the tag freak folk, either. "
Read the rest.
Listen to “Wonder Why”
"When a critic calls Vetiver a leading freak folk band, that, to me, immediately marks them as not knowing what they're talking about," says Andy Cabic, the band's singer and songwriter. Yes, it's true that Cabic once lived in the same house as Devendra Banhart, that the two sometimes wrote songs together and that Banhart sang on the first Vetiver album. It is also a fact that Cabics' band was included on the genre-defining compilation Golden Apples of the Sun and played on a 2004 tour with Banhart and Joanna Newsom that was memorialized in Kevin Barker's documentary The Family Jams.
And yet, there is nothing remotely folky about Cabic's fifth and best album, The Errant Charm, a landmark of understated, electronically-enhanced pop. Adds Cabic, "I've never really thought of us as a folk band and I never really felt any affinity for the tag freak folk, either. "
Read the rest.
Listen to “Wonder Why”
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
New Vetiver
It's probably too early to write about this, but I love Andy CAbic's Vetiver, and they(he mostly) keep getting better and better. There's a new album called Errant Charm coming out in mid-June on Sub Pop and it is, I think, the best thing Vetiver's ever done, which is saying quite a lot. It's less folk and more pop than Vetiver was in the beginning, though that's more of a continuation than a break at this point. It also has a really nice kind of Brazilian lightness in its rhythms...love this song which is called "Can't You Tell," though it's the opening track, "Worse for Wear" that destroys me every time.
Beautiful stuff.
And a live version of "You May Be Blue" from a few years back.
Look I got through an entire post on Vetiver without even mentioning Devendra Banhart.
Beautiful stuff.
And a live version of "You May Be Blue" from a few years back.
Look I got through an entire post on Vetiver without even mentioning Devendra Banhart.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Akron at Night in tall Vetiver Grass…
Three of my reviews went up today at PureMusic.
My #1 or #2 so far…Akron/Family’s Set ‘Em Wild Set ‘Em Free
The dependably wonderful Vetiver’s Tight Knit
And a kinda magic lo-fi disco debut from a young lady going by the name of Nite Jewel
My #1 or #2 so far…Akron/Family’s Set ‘Em Wild Set ‘Em Free
The dependably wonderful Vetiver’s Tight Knit
And a kinda magic lo-fi disco debut from a young lady going by the name of Nite Jewel
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