Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Sphynx

Their bandcamp page says they are "like queen, but with two freddy mercurys and also phil collins."  According to Wikipedia, I should not confuse the three groups called Sphynx: (1) a dance music act that hit #1 on the Club Play chart with What Hope Have I in 1995: (2) a disco-era studio group assembled by Egyptian produced Alec R. Costandinos; and (3) a new British alternative rock band.  Good to know, I will do my best to avoid confusion.

Spotify does not note that there are multiple bands out there using this name, and I'm not even sure that the one that Spotify has is the same as any of those three bands discussed above.  From comparing the music discussed on the twitter feed for @sphynxmusic and the tunes on Spotify, it looks like these dudes are actually an Austin band.  Here is Sha Dynasty:


Loogit that gramma destroy some Hot Cheetos and vodka and then boogie down!  Word.
And all of that music archaeology aside, they have really fun music.  Real drums with electro-pop over the top.  I won't say they've got Freddie Mercury singing for them, but definitely a falsetto-loving band, some of it reminds me of the new Daft Punk, robot disco electro pop, or MGMT.  But less so this one song, Swagger:


Ugh, the pre-song interviews on these Balcony TV videos are so bad.  These dudes were apparently high school friends who formed a band called El Guapos that was successful but disbanded when they went to college.  That Sha Dynasty song is fun - these guys are good stuff.



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