P O T L A T C H - P R E S E N T S

It was a long vacation, and an even longer re-acclimation to home. While on the road, I had the pleasure of reviewing two separate bands, and here I will document my experience with them.

The first, and most importantly, chronologically speaking, is Sound Semantics. Why? Because their album, "At the Drop of a Hat," is coming out tomorrow at Work/Sound, along with a pretty impressive tour afterward. Here's some quick specs on the band: a two piece, usually just guitar, simple percussion or other noises, and two amazingly skilled singers. The style is something that, for a lack of over-explanation: has probably been done before (I'm looking at you, Elliot Smith). That's not to say its not worth listening to, as there are some things this band does right: the vocal control of Allie Silverberg is impressive, the melodies are unique-- so unique that sometimes its even hard to see how someone would craft such things. But they do craft such things--somehow. The drawbacks to this album was that it was so sparse, there is so little happening, that if you don't entirely like one quality of it, lets say-- the lyrics, or the melodies, the guitar parts, or the tones of the singers-- well, you're probably not going to like this record. And as neutral as a statement as this is: if it clicks, well, then it clicks, and you're going to listen to the whole thing and love it. If not, try picking up Elliot Smith. If you didn't like Elliot Smith, then you probably won't want this in your CD player.

Sound Semantic Space: http://www.myspace.com/soundsemantics

On another plane of musicianship, I was able to hear a two song EP from Van Go Lion. This is a two piece in an entirely different realm than Sound Semantics: electropop. Their sound is energetic, deep, and amazingly produced. It sounds kind of like a top 40's song that I haven't yet heard. The energy is there, I can almost see or feel it! There are moments where this band goes into a state that would make other 90's-pop-revivalist acts ashamed, as this EP accomplishes it incredibly well. By God, I can see a parallel universe where I am sitting as an eight year old next to my mom in our minivan in 1992, and I'm singing along to Van Go Lion as a child before I hit puberty, and my mom and I are both so happy. And we are driving back from getting milkshakes together. This band is something I want to hear more from.

Van Go Lion Space: http://www.myspace.com/vangolion

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