flexing their muscles on downtown records (2009)
Three dudes hailing from Austin, Texas who are making some of the most interesting pop music I've heard in months. There are so many fleeting ideas, spazzy time-shifts, locked-in grooves, noise-explosions, starts, and stops on this record its tough to classify. Not that labeling is important here, just that the music defies constancy. Other bands like Maps + Atlases, Pretty and Nice, or Menomena come to mind---if only for their similarly fun sense of experimentation and incendiary playing skills. Give "Start to Run," "Regina Holding Hands," or "Mirrored and Reverse" a shot.
There's some confusion regarding the contents of this album. Some places have it as a double album, like Lala does below, others only include half the songs. The minimal sleuthing I've done has uncovered that the first 12 songs comprise the official "Fits" album, while the remaining 11 are a collection of previously released EP songs and B-sides. Enlightenment is power, sucka.
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