I heard the song “Say Something” while watching MTV2’s “Subterranean,” the indie rock show, and I saw Dr. Dog’s video, which was the coolest video I’d seen on that show. I was immediately intrigued, and I bought “Easy Beat” (Future Farmer) the next day. It’s real poppy and sometimes a bit spastic. They have really good changes. There are like two songs in every song. They’ll do a nice bridge, go into a great chord change, it’s just perfect. They have great backing harmony, not doo-wops but that kind of style. The background vocals are like another instrument. It’s also got some George Harrison-like styling on it, but the vocal patterns switch it up so often. It’s fun, happy music, good for partying at barbecues or playing Hacky Sack. I don’t actually play Hacky Sack, but I bet it would be good.

This is from the Playlist thing in the A&E section. This week it was one half of Band of Horses. Dude had been up all night partyin’ when he said all this, so we’re gonna forgive him the stoopid hacky sack comment — why not just say “it’s perfect for listening to while you’re waiting for your dreadlocks to grow”? — and the fact that the Times’ fact checkers got the label wrong (repeat after me: PARK THE VAN) and just be thankful they spelled the name right.
New York Times: Hot Diggity Dog

This entry was posted on Monday, July 24th, 2006 at 2:52 pm.