slenderbodies

One Liner: Whispery, falsetto indie pop that still somehow grooves

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, going with indie pop.
Home: L.A.

Poster Position: 17
Day: Saturday at Noon.
Both Weekends.

Thoughts: Can I just take you through a little bit of their self-penned bio on Spotify?  Yes, I can.  If you have a light gag reflex, you might want to bop on down to the next portion. Don't say I didn't warn you if your keyboard ends up full of breakfast chunkies.  "Slenderbodies writes songs for you to experience like a blanket or a warm breeze of equatorial air."  WTF.  Have they ever been anywhere near the equator?  Nothing is pleasant at all about the steamy crotch humidity of a warm equatorial breeze.  Also, I'm supposed to experience this song like it is a blanket?  WTF does that even mean?  Are we talking a scratchy blanket like at a cheap New Mexico motel?  One of those couch blankets some people have that is a full foot too short to actually cover my legs?  A musty old mothball quilt?  A nice feathery duvet full of old skin cells?  What?  You have a weird thing about blankets!  Also, "with vivid imagery at the forefront of vocal waves, the duo paints portraits of siren songs, sultry nights with foreign lovers, lost romance and home."  I mean, GTFOH.  Just reading that shit makes me want to hate this music.

There really isn't much out on the web (that is quickly accessible) about the band.  That Spotify bio, which is repeatedly reproduced elsewhere, is the majority of what you find.  They apparently met at "University," which strikes me as a semi-obnoxious way to say you met at college, even if the school you went to is named a University.  Otherwise, the majority of what I find about the band is just people saying that they love this sound.

As for what the music actually sounds like, do you remember that Glass Animals song "Gooey" that was hot last year?  This is like that, all slinky guitar work and whispered falsettos.  On the one hand, I'd prefer never to ever hear this music again.  For example, here is their top song, a whispered, feathery lost siren of sultry blankets on hot crotches.  This is "anemone," and it somehow has 12.7 million streams.

Nope.  Take that stinky fart song about wavy tentacle fish and take it back to Columbia with you.

On the other hand, their most recent single (released in 2017 and added to an extended EP they released in 2018) is actually pretty solid.  I've jammed it a number of times now, and the groove they get going in there is hard to deny.  This is "amnesia," and it has about 1 million streams.

Still kind of annoying, with all the breathy "ha!" sounds and whispery/echo-ey lyrics, but the bass line cruising around underneath the rest of the song, along with the reverbed-out guitar tickles, I like that part very much.  Give me the background music and add Janelle Monae as the vocalist, and this is great.

Unfortunately, the majority of the music is more like the first single, and not like this funky stuff.  This is not my brand of music and I will not recommend this to you.