New tunes on our block.
August 14th, 2007 by Matt
It seemed like it was time, once again, to share some music with you, dear readers, tunes we hope reflect a kind of progressivism simply by being quality pieces of art.
First up, give a gander — with your eyes and ears, and maybe even your head and heart — to the avant-rock band Explosions in the Sky performing “The Birth and Death of the Day.” You might recall, faithful followers of Progressive Wednesday that you are, that we mentioned this outfit last Friday, because Explosions in the Sky wrote the score for the flick Friday Night Lights. Here, as is the case with much of their music, you’ll witness an instrumental post-rock band using repetition that calls to mind the prose of Gertrude Stein and the Cubist paintings of the early 20th century. It’s probably going to be something new for most of you out there, and all we ask, as is the case most days, is to give this piece of progressivism a chance.
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Batting second for today’s musical post: Now It’s Overhead, and music video for their catchy, guitar-energized alt-rock tune “Walls.” This is one of the songs on heavy rotation on my iTunes. I saw Now It’s Overhead perform within the past year at the Mohawk Place in downtown Buffalo, and since then I’ve been hooked, often returning to their killer album Dark Light Daybreak.
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Now we’ve reached number trois, Okkervil River’s “For Real” off their heralded album Black Sheep Boy. This band came highly recommended by a good friend of Progressive Wednesday. So I checked out this outfit last October at Soundlab in Buffalo, and it was a show I won’t soon forget. Okkervil River is band with honesty and energy, with lyrics meant to be read and music dedicated to advancing the vocals. There’s a passion here that can’t be ignored — it’s infectious. And I can’t seem to get these gorgeous words out of my brain for the life of me: “And if you want it to be real, come over for a night: we can really, really climb. And those blue bridge lights might really burn most bright while we watch that dark lake rise.”
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