she took a sad song and made it sadder 4
At the risk of sounding like a shill for Arts and Crafts. (see my August 11th post), I have give some love to their latest signing The Most Serene Republic. If you’ve heard their debut release, “Underwater Cinematographer”, you’ve only had a taste for what they are capable of of. On, disc they flirt precociously with sounding like the lovechild of Death Cab, Stars and Broken Social Scene. Live they are entirely different beast. A tour-de-force musical entanglement of arms, legs, keyboards, guitar and trombones; a vision of Wes Anderson’s geek formalism writ large; the coolest kids in band class. And last night, I had the pleasure of witnessing them completely steal the show from their headlining act, Pretty Girls Make Graves.
Let’s hope they’ll help ween the mostly 16-18 year old crowd that was in attendance from their Good Charlotte CDs (”Dear LiveJournal, I saw the most awesome band tonight…”).
Here’s a track brought to you courtesy of A & C:
The Most Serene Republic – Content Was Always My Favourite Colour
And here’s one for me:
(taken from the A & C 2005 Tour Sampler – “Adventures In Advertising”)
Stars – Ageless Beauty (The Most Serene Mix)
Awesome sound. I would’ve loved to have heard this live. A must add to the playlist. Thanks for the track.
The Most Serene Republic
Thinking about Broken Social Scene this morning got me thinking about their label, Arts Crafts, and then I read on pop77 about AC’s recently signed band The Most Serene Republic. I got their Underwater Cinematographer LP from the iTunes
what’s the name of the song with the “she took a sad song and made it sadder” lyrics?
i saw them live too and that was definitely my favoritest in the whole wide world.
Caroline..if you’re still checking these threads…the song you’re looking for is called proposition 61