Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Miniature Tigers

Rolling Stone declared them "one of the 25 best bands on MySpace" in 2006.  Damning praise these days.  Like saying the best ice beer.  This is electronic indie pop with a generous salting of hip-hop flavor.  Their first album, 2008's Tell It To The Volcano, has their most popular song on Spotify, which is an interesting disco-y, driving, acoustic ditty called Cannibal Queen.



New album, Cruel Runnings, only has a few songs available on Spotify, but I think I've heard the first single before on the radio, called Swimming Pool Blues: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTLyfpiibUE (apologies for lack of embeddedness...)

The other two songs accessible on that new album are "Used to Be the Shit," a Hall and Oates'ey synth song longing about a relationship gone downhill and "Oblivious," which is more of a 80's new wave synth track (Thompson Twins?  Psychedelic Furs?).  

The album before Cruel Runnings, 2012's Mia Pharaoh, included Sex on the Regular, which also sounds familiar to me.  Also sounds like a joke Chromeo/Lonely Islands disco about getting it on.  The video is super weird, and if your work has issues with animated nudity, then also not safe for your workplace.


Mia Pharaoh sounds a little like Ween, kind of jokey pop music with a sing-song, falsetto delivery.  I gave the whole album a shot, and I can't say I enjoy it very much.  It is definitely not terrible, but I'm not feeling it.

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