So Many Dynamos play an energetic brand of dancey post-punk that sounds strikingly familiar to The Dismemberment Planâ€"singer Aaron Stovall comes as close as a person can come to sounding like Travis Morrison without being Travis Morrison. But the Dynamos aren’t just biting styles; they’re far too ambitious for that. “Search Partyâ€, from the group’s [...]
This post has nothing to do with the father of couch jumping, however it does has something to do with "the final frontier." NASA'S launching the space shuttle Atlantis this week and Europe crashed their first spacecraft onto the moon this weekend. These posts have something to do with space. -Adem hails from the U.K. and is part of the nu-folk scene. His new album Love and Other Planets will be released by Domino Records on September 26th. The album is spaced themed and this song is fitting [...]
Dre Wapenaar - TREETENTS (1998) I've neglected to post about the odesseyian adventure and reckless abandon mixed drink that is summer camping in Wisconsin. I've neglected many other vitals recently including paying parking tickets, finding a job to pay rent, and buying toilet paper... but in my current pull-yourself-up-by-your-boots traps git-er-done mood, this post seemed the most appropriate to complete. And honestly, what is weightier than a dynamic group of young adults putting aside an entire weekend to venture into the wilderness to learn [...]
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Finally! I've been sitting on So Many Dynamos for a little while now, trying to wait for their new album before posting about them. These St. Louis fellas have recently spent time as Emperor X's backing band and extensively touring themselves. All that time on the road and all the shows have helped them find, focus, and refine themselves. The goal: to make you dance. The result: crashing drums, frantic vocals, equally frantic guitars, a horn section, a 30 member choir, carnival instruments, and lots of dancing in the living room. [...]
St. Louis' very own palindrome-happy So Many Dynamos (see their myspace page here ) got a great review from the mighty windy-city tastemakers at Pitchfork earlier this week for their upcoming album, Flashlights . I've been a fan of this band since their debut EP, Are We Not Drawn Onward To New Era? . It was evident then that SMD followed the Dismemberment Plan step by step, but they did it so well and with such conviction, as evidenced on such songs as "Airtight" and "This [...]
THIS WEEK'S FINDS week of July 30-Aug. 5 "Gone Gone Gone" - John Ralston This one may start like just another weepy, acoustic ballad, but John Ralston has much more up his sleeve than weepy balladry, of the sort often practiced by the current pack of jam-band-inspired troubadours. First, when the full band kicks in after 19 seconds, the strength of the original melody becomes surprisingly evident. What sounded tinkly and precious with just an acoustic guitar playing now sounds vigorous and involving. I think it's the drummer in particular: that just [...]
So Many Dynamos make power-indie-pop, if there is such a thing. White Lion for the Arcade Fire crowd. Much of it is highly experimental and full of energy. They’re billing this as a “St. Louis dance-punk outfit,†but I find their stuff more enigmatic than that. Rawer and with less of a beat than Death From Above. It’s not surprising they were picked up by a Seattle label, Skrocki Records. I’ll be surprised if we don’t start hearing a lot from these guys in the next year or so. [...]
Today's a good day in blog-o-land. You know why? Because I finally get to rave about So Many Dynamos ! I've been a SMD fan ever since they put their debut album, When I Explode out last year. Often compared to the one and only Dismemberment Plan, these St. Louis-based guys really know how to make you want to get up and shake your ass. At a time when keyboards are beginning to sound cliché in indierock, Aaron Stovall's very handsome synth is the beating heart of their poppy breakdowns. So Many Dynamos [...]
This is a good press photo. Download: So Many Dynamosâ€"“Search Party†MP3 Download: So Many Dynamosâ€"“In Every Direction†MP3 Download: So Many Dynamosâ€"“In Our Sleep†MP3 I can't get enough of So Many Dynamos ! Fresh off a semi-successful attempt to tour all of the contiguous 48 states (they missed a few, [...]
if you were heartbroken when the fantastic dismemberment plan broke up, and thought travis morrison's solo record was, eh lets say pretty shitty, fret not young (wo)man. if you say dismemberment plan, who? do yourself a favor and check em out. bringing it back on track, st louis, misery's so many dynamos are here to fill that void. i am not saying that they are the dismemberment plan reincarnated, i am just saying. although the first track "search party" reminds me quite a bit of the spastic ways of the now defunct and captains [...]
Experimental Pop. Flashlights is the follow-up to 2004 (and 2005’s!) critically-acclaimed release, When I Explode. This a band brimming with energy and talent, recalling the glory days of The Dismemberment Plan and contemporaries We Versus the Shark while firmly forging their own path through instrumental experimentation. The band built on the power of their last release by adding horns, a choir and a variety of other sonic experiments in the studio, St. Louis’ Radio Penny Studios. With the urgency of “Search Party,†the dirty rock of “Progress,†and twisted time signatures in “Home Is Where the Box Wine Is,†[...]
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