Short Music Review: Japanther at the ICA
Even though I have the biggest exam of my life in three days, I went to see a band play tonight. The Institute of Contemporary Art (across the street from my office, where I was studying) had an art opening tonight, and one of my favorite bands played very briefly. They didn’t do a sound check. Why bother when you use a plastic telephone for a mic and hand off your cymbals to some 16-year-old who takes them crowd surfing? Yes, I love Japanther because their whole approach to music is fun and bizarre. They sound like garage band banging on and shouting into stuff that was actually lying around a garage. I couldn’t really see Japanther because of the small but extremely densely-packed and spastic crowd around them: my love for the band is apparently shared by a bunch of exuberant teenagers in glasses so thick that I worry about them getting neck strain. Fortunately, their antics were something of a spectacle in its own right. I wonder if all my favorite bands are followed by such lovable miscreants, and what that might say about my own taste in music.
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I think it positively speaks to your taste in music. magic people seek magic things.
By R2 on 11.28.07 9:33 pm
I will accept this compliment. Thank you.
Also, I ended up passing that big exam on the first try. Moral: Japanther makes you smarter.
By Jason on 11.29.07 4:51 am
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