The crew at Yours Truly has released another in their series of brief interview/live performance video pieces, this time with a particularly worthy subject in focus: Merrill Garbus, she of w h o k i l l and BTW designation, a singular and transfixing live artist who fuses ukulele + live looping + deep Sublime Frequencies comp listening into consistently celebratory, rhythmic, and harmony-laden sessions of group empowerment. (Some also call them “concerts.”) Here Merrill talks a bit about the meaning and evolution of her new LP’s name (and its former iteration, women who kill), and then does that thing she does at concerts, with one bassist and many pedals in tow. In a chicken shack.
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…does she have a mustache during the interview?
Indeed. I find it interesting her boyfriend/bassist is presumably o.k with it. I don’t know, I’d suggest she get the laser treatment but who am i to judge. Some guys insist on leaving their unibrows unified, and some woman I guess feel the same way to the ever seldom womstache.
Aside from that I absolutely adore that voice of hers. So jazzy and powerful.
Flippin awesome.
i’ll just risk it and say that everything about this band is gross.
I hate it when bands use loopstations and something stays just slightly offbeat for the whole song. It’s like OCD for my ears.
We can all agree that tUnE-yArDs are the McPoyle brothers of the music world.
I have no idea what that means.
Ha, that is an apt comparison. (And for seanjean: It is a reference to some particularly creepy characters on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.)