26 January 2009
RECENT LISTENS

Mi Ami - "Watersports" (Quarterstick) -- Quite a different beast from Russ Waterhouse's brilliant Watersports project, this is guitar-heavy indie-funk-dance (enough hypens!) with some dark, psychedelic moments. The obvious comparisons are New Age Steppers or Rip, Rig and Panic, but maybe that's too easy; Mi Ami has the punk edge too, but maybe it's more of a punk-after-30-years edge. Some of the guitar parts are total shredding spikes of noise and the vocals extend into the yelping arena quite a bit. I think I like it; I think I could end up listening to this a lot.