Supertaste

One Liner: Another disco-ey Daft Punk-ey with Chic thing for this poster
Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but this is disco dance fever
Home: Brooklyn

Poster Position: Late Addition
Day: Sunday
Weekend Two Only.

BMI Stage at 3:15.

Thoughts:  Uh oh, a fresh band here in the last month before the Festival!  Sounds like we are back on the disco train though.  While searching for information about this band, which has no Wikipedia or obvious website, I found a discussion on Reddit about supertaste in autistic people that was fascinating. According to one tiny bio, the band is three dudes from Brooklyn who like deli sandwiches and disco. 

Zach Britt & Lucas Feigenbaum got started by throwing DJ parties around the New York club circuit, after finding each other and feeling like their musical taste was complimentary.    They had previously each been in bands - Zach in an indie band called Hundreds Thousands) and Lucas in a disco-house thing called Slug Father.  Both of those are good names.  After about 2 years, they finally tried their hand at making actual music, and started releasing things during the pandemic.  Not sure when the third member came in, or what he does for the group.

Several singles before 2021's Super Classic, which was followed up by 2024's Supernova.  The title track to that new album is their top streamer with 1.2 million.  Lotta "super" in that search.

It's fine.  I'm sure this will be a fun show to boogie along to with this stuff, but it also strikes me as a very forgettable little nugget of pop disco throwback.  Like, this is the fourth or fifth time I have heard it right now as I write this, and other than making me think of some other song that says something about taking me hiiiigher like he keeps singing.  I know it sounds like Guru's song with N'Dea Davenport from Jazzmatazz, where she singer "higher" just like that, but I feel like there is something else he is stealing from as well.  Funny that their second-most streamed track is called "Take Me Higher," maybe that sord is in their DNA.  999k streams.

Another totally fine dance party song.  Very much sounds like more of the Daft Punk-channeling-Chic thing from a few years ago, just like a few other folks on this poster do.  Which means that all of these artists biting this style will be gone from our imagination in another few months.  This one is not for me.

Animal Arcade

One Liner: Local folks doing some disco-tinged, funky rock
Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but disco-ey rock
Home: Austin!

Poster Position: Late addition
Day: Saturday
Weekend One.

Tito's Tent at 1:00.

Thoughts:  Waaaaaaaay late addition to the poster here.  So this review will be very quick.  An interview I read says that: "Tommy Floegel (guitar/sax) and Will Duson (keys/backup vocals) met in college at Belmont University, but didn’t begin making music together until early 2023 when Tommy moved to Austin and Will noticed a familiar face posted up at Barton Springs." That is cute.  They added in the rest of the band over a little time, starting all of this in 2023.  The big stress at the start of the band was that their original singer ditched the band just 11 days before their first ever live show.  So, they scoured facebook, craigslist, whatever - using the hashtag #atxsinger, they found Gigi Hess, who has a super strong voice (and so it seems crazy she was just chilling out there...)

Kind of a disco-tinged rock and funk thing.  No track has more than 10k streams.  No album, just a handful of singles.  The currently most popular is "What a Man," that I was sort of hoping would end up being an En Vogue cover, but instead has a sort of Native American chant vibe in there.  6,621 streams.

As I kept listening, these dudes really lucked out to find this singer.  Her voice is 10x the power of the background grooves.  The music overall is forgettable to me, but she keeps making me take notice as I listen through the catalog.