Gold seems to be a fashionable color for up and coming electro artists. First MSTRKRFT, then Heads We Dance, and now Truly Beautiful Disaster. The band is composed of one member from Greece and one from London. Combined they make the kind of electronica that makes me want to put on a cape and mask and fight crime with Hong Kong inspired impossible martial arts.
December 20, 2008
(New Music!) A Truly Beautiful Disaster Strikes Greece and London!
Elkland/Goat Explosion Reforms as The Drums!
Some of you might remember the short lived but excellent New Wave band Elkland that formed out of Horseheads, NY (Upstate New York!). The band released their debut album Golden in 2005 and supported such bands as VHS or Beta as well as Erasure before breaking up. Singer/Songwriter Jon Pierce soon after reformed his old band Goat Explosion with old friend Jacob Graham and produced a 4 song EP entitled Hope Is Alive. Then the band went quiet. Jacob resurfaced with a new band called Horse Shoes just recently and even more recently the two have announced they got back together under a different name; The Drums. They had this to say on their new Myspace:
‘ “We just wanted to start a band that sounded like The Wake.” say The Drums, “We heard their song ‘Pale Spectre’ and went crazy! Maybe our music didn’t turn out sounding too much like The Wake but we’re really just like everybody else, chasing that perfect pop song. And that’s not so bad right?”
Jonathan and Jacob met each other at summer camp when they were children. they’ve been best friends ever since (except for a five year period when they hated each other). They’ve both had successful musical careers individually, but this is the first time they’ve sat down and written songs together. “We’ve always wanted to make music together, but distance and violence has always stopped us.”
the band is hard at work on their first record, tentatively titled “Forever”, which should be out just in time to be your perfect summer soundtrack, or the soundtrack for your perfect summer. ‘
The Drums – Me and the Moon
