The Knife Music Snobs Inc
The Knife Music Snobs Inc. A collection of expert witnesses making sweeping generalizations about the scene. Facebook Talk to The Knife Knives Falling Out of The Moon “It’s funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they’re related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there’s a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.” A.M. Nine months ago, I’d chanced upon a sub50 playsonSoundcloud band from Chennai, and quietly reveled in the discovery of what I’d imagined were a couple of jittery South Indian kids gawky, with big hair and tambourines and access to a lot of Vampire Weekend, awkwardly explaining their acoustic bedroom songs on scratchy workinprogress recordings. I’ve been waiting for this debut, basically. The F16’s are jet fighter aircrafts, antibodies against influenza, code for mental and behavioral disorders due to use of hallucinogens, and five guys from Madras (they’re sentimentalists, this is important). This seven song EP, Kaleidoscope, is such a throwback, and its contents are very telling. There is such a thing as wearing your influences on your sleeve, and this here is it. I’d initially worried about them destroying their quivering acoustic charm, but they turned it around. I really like this EP, but in a guilty pleasure kind of way.
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