Every so often I'll run into someone who really hates "dance music" and will argue that it's stupid, or anti-intellectual. I saw one person on Twitter refer to Royksopp as a mediocre dance band over the past weekend. Simply put, Simian Mobile Disco are why people who believe that are full of shit.
SMD's album Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release is a like listening to an instructional manual on beatmaking. Working within the confines of the 4/4 beat (as does nearly everyone else), the the album is pretty remarkable in that the beats transition into one another. It's two singles, "The Hustler" and "It's the Beat", are dance floor anthems, with the latter being a perfect case for getting people to D.A.N.C.E.
When I saw them at Neumo's last year, I wrote:
The show felt like what I presume a typical (but decadent) weekend night at Studio 54 was like in the 1970s. People dressed up (or down, depending on your ideology) for the occasion, danced all night... Once the music from SMD started, the show was a dance party sans any inhibitions or reservations... Two very drunk (but very attractive) women that I’ve never met before even told me during “It’s the Beat” that they loved me – and for the duration of that song, I believed them.
This show will be the dance party of the weekend, and an excellent way to spend your Friday night. This is where I'll be but where are you going to be Friday night?
Justin Klump/Daniel Adams/Lower Lights Burning/Casey Frazier, Q Cafe*
The One & Only True Messiah/Spanish For 100/Sorry, Mars Bar
Thee Sgt Major III/Broken Nobles, Jules Maes
Leroy Bell & His Only Friends, Triple Door*
Big John Bates & The Voodoo Dollz/The Lilium, El Corazon
Pufferfish/Pickwick, Easy Street {West Seattle}
The Intimate Times/Wind-Up Bird, High Dive {6pm}
Midstokke/Safer/The Apple War/This Blinding Light, High Dive {late}
A Gun That Shoots Knives/Thee Emergency/The Resets, Sunset Tavern
The Curious Mystery/Strix Vega/Contraband Countryband, Comet
Toni Hill {album release}/Siren's Echo/Okanomode/Christina Orbe, Chop Suey*
The Cops {final all-ages show}, Vera*
Kmria/The Minus 5, Tractor !
The Jake Marsh Trio/Julia Massey/The Side Project/Pete Bush & The Hoi Polloi, Showbox
Simian Mobile Disco, Neumo's
1 imaginary keenan said on March 13, 2009
Tonight I will be at the Blue Moon to see a perfect storm of a show of BOAT, Connecticut Four, and Peter Parker. All three bands contain members (or one time members) of one of my favorite bands ever, Racetrack. Racetrack used to play with Peter Parker all the time. Two of the bands also contain members of a band called Paxil Rose (disclaimer - I was the bass player in said band). Paxil Rose used to play with Peter Parker all the time. Tonight is the first night that all these incarnations of bands will be playing together, and maybe that everyone will actually be in the same room at the same time in years. On top of that, these are three of what I think are the best local bands right now. And it's a free show. So basically, you should be there.
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