Team Doyobi Choose Your Own Adventure
Team Doyobi makes instrumental electronica that takes a little from every camp and could be compared to Autechre, Mouse on Mars or Prefuse 73 at different times. An odd, loosely conceptual "space voyage," which sounds like a Nintendo System gon mad, Choose Your Own Adventure is synthetic without being annoyingly so. The songs are not content to stay in one place and are constantly changing. Most importantly, Team Doyobi knows their craft and manages to stay interesting while working with a limited palette.
Mr. Airplane Man C'mon DJ
Grade: B+
Ryan Patrick, KJHK DJ
On the cover of Mr. Airplane Man's latest LP, two female heroines are sitting by a record player, listening to some old 45s. At first, you hope the garage-blues outfit might have dipped more into its heavy Bo Diddley influence and release a brash, swaggering, explosive album. However, this record can be described as Vietnam War Blues. The music is slower than earlier efforts, but more complex.. It is still a killer record, but one that you might not expect. The best way to put it is that this is Mr. Airplane Man's "Trinity Session."
Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Grade: A-
Chris Knudsen, KJHK DJ
Fridays from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m.
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Single Frame
Wetheads Come Running
Being a band in Austin, Texas, is probably about as difficult as keeping your eyes open when you sneeze or taking responsibility for My Baby's Daddy. The chaps in Single Frame seem to get along alright though. So what's their secret? Well, "Post Daydream Forecast" is a hell of a thing, all dressed up in dizzy keyboards. And it's hard not to like "Mod Style '68," although it could have been renamed "Hardcore Style'91" just as well. The Malkmus Mouse mumble of "Comm. Jet" pays off in a psychedelic rush near the end. And so on. You already have all of these albums in your collection though, and Single Frame is the cheat sheet dangling in front of your face. CliffsNotes comparisons aside, Single Frame show a lot of promise once it finds something to soothe their musical schizophrenia. Otherwise it might end up a cover band for aging hipsters, a "True Austin Story" of sorts.
Grade: C
Jonny Greenwood Bodysong
- Phil Torpey Host of "Breakfast for Beatlovers" Tudays from 9 a.m. to noon
A film score by Jonny Greenwood, the multi-instrumentalist from the almighty Radiohead. Bodysong is an award-winning British documentary written and directed by Simon Pummell. The film discusses life, from its creation to its sometimes disturbing end. Bodysong was funded by the UK's FilmFour Lab, a group that promotes "the newest and most striking creative visions of tomorrow's cinema." To accompany this brilliant film, Jonny Greenwood has produced a beautifully abstract instrumental backbone. It sonically mimicks the goal of the film: To describe the human sensory experience. After one listen, the parallel to the latest Radiohead release Hail to the Thief is abundantly clear. Tracks range from catchy to simply listenable. As with every soundtrack, you get it only after viewing the film. Regardless of Greenwood's intentions, this is a brilliant piece of music and worth checking out.
Grade: B+
Grade: B+
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