is anyone else familiar with trans am?
saw them last night at cat's cradle here in chapel hill, along with golden
[nice indie rock], and tractor hips [indie-art-jazz-rock with the best
drummer i've heard since max roach]
Before Trans Am came on, they were playing Anvil VApre ovre the system so
i was getting pretty excited that they were going to be quite good [and
even tho i dont really like autechre, that shit was dope at high volume].
long story not as long, they played mostly non-descript yech indie rock
[and i DO like indie rock when it's just right], one death metal type tune
which was hilarious, and three or four electronically based songs. One was
kinda like miami vice music haha, and the others were a little too simple
and slightly amateurish to impress, but ONE song was absolutely fantastic:
mix aphex twin distortion and sparse spooky melodies, with autechre-ish
industrial-electro-complex rhythms, add some nice little live drummer
touches and some very well used guitar drone and voila....
worth seeing for that song
j