The Old-Fashioned Way
with Evancelicals
- When
- Thu Oct 23, 2008
- Where
- Hemlock Tavern
- Time
- 9pm
- Cost
- $8
- Tags
- Music, Rock, Pop, Other Music
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Description
"Crowded around their sage leader, the OFW give off the ease of a family band, though no member remotely resembles another. They’re Dickensian orphans, then, who’ve gathered to put on a minstrel show — and who’ve had to find a sound to fit their strange batch of instruments. The two red-blooded guitars and the drum kit give the songs a sturdy rock core when the band wishes it. But there are also, at points, a paul mccartney–style toy bass, an accordion, a triangle, a wailing keyboard, and a melodica, which pile into a haunted and seductive sort of antipop, mournful and klezmerish on a track like 'robot on fire' but boppy, harmonic, and needing a restroom on 'take your fluids.'"- myspace.com
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