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Posts tagged The Kooks
The “Awkward” Sounds of San Cisco
It’s amazing how often things that shouldn’t work together do. For example, as a true Australian, I love Vegemite and cheese— don’t try this at home, folks. This love, however, is intellectually counterintuitive; Vegemite should not be loved in conjunction with anything (to be honest, the thought of Vegemite by itself is, in a word, “vomitous”). On the other hand, unlike the erstwhile Vegemite, Western Australian vocalists Scarlett Stevens of The Flairz and Jordi Davieson of The Real Life Animators have never been considered vomitous. Together, fronting their unholy musical lovechild San Cisco, these two remarkable vocalists are even less vomitous than they are separately— in fact, the band is really very good. However, the fusion of Stevens’ and Davieson’s vocal stylings is not the unusual combination that makes San Cisco what it is; both The Real Life Animators and The Flairz are lo-fi bastions of the Fremantle garage rock scene, and in a country as small as Australia, cross pollination between the two bands was practically inevitable. Instead, it is the introduction of minimalistic, energetic, poppy riffs to Davieson’s stringent, keening vocals that makes San Cisco a liminal musical force.
The Postelles @ The Trocadero Theater (11/15)
After watching The Postelles open for The Kooks at The Trocadero Theater on the night of November 16, it was easy to see why the show was sold out. As I walked into the venue, they were just starting their first song, and I could immediately feel their contagious energy reverberating throughout the space. Stepping in a little further proved I wasn’t the only one who had fallen victim to lead singer Daniel Balk’s charisma, as the crowd was a sea of swaying bodies grooving to The Postelles’ infectious melodies.
