Dave Barclay found teen agnst at 21

I have a sweet tooth. I can't resist a good pop song. This is why I was incredibly excited when the new Diskettes album Weekends at Island view Beach arrived in my mailbox. I got my first chance to see them when Dave Barclay spent last summer being a Physics nerd in Vancouver. I took this slightly blurry photograph during a house show that summer. The Diskettes tip their hats to Phil Spector groups, doo-wop the Beat Happening, "world music" and the Beach Boys but what makes them interesting(and also makes P:ano interesting) is that they manage to make something new and interesting rather than perfectly recreating their influences, which is more than I can say for a good deal of the 70's rock revival bands that seem to be a hot item lately.

Get! Together! My first selection has great percussion, I really love the sound of the bass drum. I've found that I've been particular drawn to percussion lately. This song is also incredibly short running only 1:14 in length. I like short songs too. The xylophone and vocal moment at 0:46 is also smile inducing.

The second song I chose End Points is a live recording it is a great call and response number that I can't get enough of. I love the sound of the recoding, it is sort of washed out and distant sounding with appropriate audience "wooos" at just the right point. Really this song's strong point is that it has the sort of lyrics that call for "wooos"

Get! Together!

End Points

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In Other news I'd like to welcome all the Said the gramophone readers, and thank Sean for the kind words. As a side note I'd like to say that I was really enjoying your tour or Europe posts!
(Also thank you to Neale at Whimsy Inc for the same).