Album Review
Banyan “Live at Perkins? Palace” [Sanctuary Records]
Mac 3/5/2005 A Library
Led by Stephen Perkins, formerly of Jane’s Addiction, this indie-pop is too jazzy for rock and too rocky for jazz. Meeting somewhere in the middle, Perkins (drummer), Mike Watt (bass), Willie Waldman (trumpet) and Nels Cline (guitar) cover as much ground as the Indian fig tree the band is named after. They’ll shift things to high gear on tracks #1 & #7 with hard driving rock/pop, then slow things down to the smooth soft sounds of tracks like #3 and #8. Playing to genre stereotypes, the faster songs sound more like rock and the slower songs fall more into the jazz groove. Elements of both are still found on every track. Though the album says Live on the cover, a few studio effects have found their way onto the recording. Final note: the last track, Fun House, is a Stooges cover.
you heard it 16 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 6077 days ago, Numa played Om Om Om
- 6080 days ago, Grawer played Mad As a Hornet
- 6080 days ago, Morris Minor played El Sexxo
- 6178 days ago, Justin Outlier played Fun House
- 6415 days ago, Max Level played Only You Will Know
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