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Truman Peyote and Many Mansions both hail from Jamaica Plain, that row house with porch and distant yet close Boston neighborhood that’s home to a disco/bowling alley/bar/venue (The Milky Way) and many young and cool psychedelic bands it seems. I always loved the Boston music scene of the 80s and 90s (who didn’t?) and something tells me there’s a lot of cool shit there brewing under the surface. I gots to visit come Spring.
“Mind Island” is one track by Many Mansions off the 12″ split with TP, “Peaced Together.” It’s kind of tribal in the liberal use of hollow drum beats and chanting. But then there are the drones that make the sonic landscape modern. A simple guitar line brings the song out of haze and muck, directing the action and moving your mind along. Pretty great stuff for the time when you want to think on a linear line. Chase your thoughts. Straight into Malkovich.
Get the split, it’s out on The Whitehaus Family Record.
Mind Island: Many Mansions
TONIGHT
Das Racist (Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique covers set) at Cameo, 8ish
WEDNESDAY
Atlas Sound and Memory Tapes at the Bell House, 8ish (and Thursday at Kimmel Center/NYU with Neon Indian)
Ari Up (The Slits), Lady Miss Kier (Deee-Lite), Kim Ann Foxman, Allison Wolfe (Bratmobile/Partyline), and more (Benefit for Doctors without Borders) at (le) Poisson Rouge, 11ish
THURSDAY
Cold Cave and Nite Jewel at Mercury Lounge, 9:30
Twin Sister, Big Troubles, Alice Cohen, Pigeons, Run-DMT at Studio at Webster Hall, 8ish
FRIDAY
Those Darlins, So So Glos at Bowery Ballroom, 8ish
The Soft Pack at Cake Shop, FREE! 7ish
Tanlines, Acrylics at Brooklyn Bowl, 8ish
Teengirl Fantasy at Market Hotel, 8ish
tUnE-YaRds, Takka Takka, A Rose Parade at the Bell House, 8ish
SATURDAY
Shellshag, forgetters, Screaming Females, JEFF The Brotherhood at Bowery Ballroom, 7ish
Hot Chip at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 8ish
Class Actress, The Morning Benders, Blood Orange, Acrylics, Twin Shadow at Glasslands, 8ish
MONDAY
Yeasayer, Light Asylum at Bowery Ballroom, 8ish
The b-side to Big Troubles’ “Freudian Slips” 7″ is crazy. The guitar solo is basically one strum done over and over again, wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah…. And the manipulation of the sound so that it sounds like a rubber band being stretched and plucked is incendiary. Incendiary.
Big Troubles is a fun live show too. The band’s playing at the Studio at Webster Hall on Thursday with Twin Sister, Run-DMT, Pigeons and Alice Cohen.
The version of “Freudian Slips” on this record is different than the one we all know from the internets. Get it from Blackburn Recordings.
Big Troubles: Wouldn’t Mind
Some people get bowled over by music videos. Maybe they are more visual than me, i don’t know. BUT… today it happened to me too! The video for the awesome and amazing Cold Cave song “Life Magazine” is cold… like ice! But really, really gorgeous too. Directed by Aaron Brown and Ben Chappell of Focus Creeps, it shows cover star Marti Domination getting ready, applying make-up, dancing, “not going back”…
About halfway through… the color comes out. This has to be a metaphor for something…
Gabriel Wheeler
Some Sandwitches jams have been making their way around for a while now, but not until I heard “Grey Wizard” was I sure of my feelings about the band from San Francisco. I like these ethereal rock songs.
I think this is a sound that is very California in nature. Maybe it’s the mix of leftover hippie culture and the grime of illicit, underground San Francisco. Whatever it is, the sound of the Sandwitches, pretty harmonies, folksy singing, but with a dirty guitar sound accentuated by fuzz, seems to me like something that could only come from the (b)west coast.
Also, I think they play with two guitars, no bass. Just like Sleater-Kinney. YES.
“Grey Wizard” is coming out on March 2 on a Seven Sounds compilation, “In a Cloud: New Sounds from San Francisco. Also on the comp: Hannah and Raven of Grass Widow, Thee Oh Sees, Fresh & Onlys (a band that used to include members of the Sandwitches) and Jacques Butters. The band’s album, “How to Make Ambient Sadcake” is available here.
The Sandwitches will be in NYC on March 6 and will play a few SXSW shows, including the Gorilla vs. Bear showcase.
The Sandwitches: Grey Wizard
