@simonp glad you love them. me too! where are you based? I managed to see both their London gigs which were great. Very casual indie affairs. The Feelies are a band on my radar but never listened too. Recommend a starting point?
@mrbootle any of them! Their first album was very new wave, all jerky rhythms and David Byrne-like vocals. Then they had a hiatus for about six years and came back with The Good Earth, with its brilliantly hypnotic guitars and vaguely West Coast vibe, with a dash of later Velvets thrown in for good measure. They did two more albums in a similar (though perhaps more urgent) vein before disbanding again and reforming...
And funnily enough an early offshoot of The Feelies was called The Trypes (they had a compilation album reissued recently which is very good in a demo-y kind of way). http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16644-music-for-neighbors/ An homage by this band perhaps?
@simonp thanks so much for your passionate response. I will definitely check them out. I have Here Know queued up on eMusic to buy but notice the reissue reviews for The Good Earth and Crazy Rhythms got 9.1s so I'm thinking of heading back in time. If I had to get _one_ album which would be your pic ;-)
As for the Trypes, who knows. You should tweet to Twerps to find out, they're pretty responsive on social.
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simonp
Just love this band. Very Feelies, which of course is a very good thing indeed.
cello_m
haha, "twerping" -- best new verb of 2015!
cello_m
or rather "to twerp" :)
mrbootle
@simonp glad you love them. me too! where are you based? I managed to see both their London gigs which were great. Very casual indie affairs. The Feelies are a band on my radar but never listened too. Recommend a starting point?
mrbootle
@cello_m haha! sounds like a dance. do the twerp
simonp
@mrbootle any of them! Their first album was very new wave, all jerky rhythms and David Byrne-like vocals. Then they had a hiatus for about six years and came back with The Good Earth, with its brilliantly hypnotic guitars and vaguely West Coast vibe, with a dash of later Velvets thrown in for good measure. They did two more albums in a similar (though perhaps more urgent) vein before disbanding again and reforming...
simonp
...with Here Before in 2011 which, to me, proved just what a debt bands like Real Estate owed them.
simonp
Based in Edinburgh - and, as far as I know, the Twerps haven't ventured this far north sadly
simonp
And funnily enough an early offshoot of The Feelies was called The Trypes (they had a compilation album reissued recently which is very good in a demo-y kind of way). http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16644-music-for-neighbors/ An homage by this band perhaps?
mrbootle
@simonp thanks so much for your passionate response. I will definitely check them out. I have Here Know queued up on eMusic to buy but notice the reissue reviews for The Good Earth and Crazy Rhythms got 9.1s so I'm thinking of heading back in time. If I had to get _one_ album which would be your pic ;-) As for the Trypes, who knows. You should tweet to Twerps to find out, they're pretty responsive on social.