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These Are Powers, Guidance Counselor, Fuck You Safari
THESE ARE POWERS:
FROM SPIN MAGAZINE (4 OUT OF 5 STARS):
Blipping and thumping through nine tracks, These Are Powers' debut album cross-wires art-damaged difficult listening with skewed rock swagger. The result is a thrilling, hyperpercussive collection of laptop ditties mixed so cleverly that they'll sound great ticking through earbuds or booming out of dad's trusty Cerwin-Vegas. Trainspotters may detect trace amounts of Siouxsie Sioux (the sensuous yelp of "Double Double Yolk") or PiL (the ambient menace of "Light After Sound"), but TAP aren't throwbacks. All Aboard Future lives up to its title.
http://thesearepowers.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thesearepowers
GUIDANCE COUNSELOR
FROM THE WILLAMETTE WEEK:
Â[My brother] was like, ÂYouÂre going to have to learn how to play music if youÂre going to live on my couch, he explains. ÂI was always enamored [with music], recalls Anderson. ÂAlways, always. But I couldnÂt figure out how to do it. It seemed too impossible. I think that changed when I got that sequencer.Â
Now, Anderson adds jagged guitar, live drums and dancey keyboard to his sound sequencing, but he doesnÂt consider himself a serious instrumentalist. ÂIf someone ever is like, ÂHey, you donÂt know what youÂre doing, he says, ÂIÂll be like, ÂYeah, but I never said I [did]. The dirty blond, mustachioed gent (who says Ârad about every other word) also keeps a mental list of untrained musiciansÂJoy DivisionÂs Ian Curtis and They Might Be Giants, for exampleÂat the ready for encouragement in times of musical slumps.
Anderson should be gaining confidence, though. As a February tour with local pedal-pop trio Starfucker proved, Guidance Counselor can survive on music alone: Anderson lost his voice mid-tour, but he still performed blog-lauded high-energy sets, focusing more on freaking out and dancing than his usual, authoritative vocals (which range from attacking the status quo to contemplating fleece pullovers). And since beginning as Guidance Counselor in July, heÂs already played the same number of shows as years heÂs livedÂ22.
www.myspace.com/guidancecounselorpdx
F YOU SAFARI
www.myspace.com/fuckyousafari
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