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Film School
(We featured the following artist last year on SYITP but thought they were so good that we should feature them again. This previous entry has been updated to reflect changes in the last 12 months. And if you missed out the first time around, now is your chance!)
This five-piece band hailing from San Francisco specialize in beautiful shoegazer pop with spine tingling effects, along the lines of Grandaddy, Swervedriver, and early Radiohead. Film School's Alwaysnever EP showcased their finely-honed chops, creating a dreamy aftertaste of amtospheric and dreamy euphoria. The band has since signed with Beggars Banquet and (a few days ago) released a self-titled album on the renowned indie label, and is now firmly climbing the mountain towards indie rock stardom.
Fans of the genre will recognize the sound: there's the requisite swirling guitars, layered on top of haunting keyboards and droning sounds from another dimension, but also the crooning sounds of a faraway vocalist, making like a long-distance lover on the telephone, and an impressive rythmn section that grounds the band, unlike some of their similarly inclined counterparts. "P.S." is light and spritely, like your elementary school girlfriend laughing on a summer playground, teasing you and barely touching the ground until a wall of sound breaks in part-way through, clamoring to catch up. Meanwhile, some songs brood and wander through the outer regions of space, and end up out-Radioheading Radiohead, like the long-lost siblings of "Exit Music (For a Film)," before turning deadly and crushing.
Film School come a long way over the last few years, since their inception in 1998. Their latest effort finds codas unraveling longer and longer, guitar lines drawing infinite fractals, choruses becoming more expansive, walls of sound growing taller, and the overall feeling of musicians more comfortable than ever; journalists are throwing around comparisons to The Cure and Mogwai like there's no tomorrow. The music of Film School sometimes threads to drift off into the ether, far from the grasp of us mere mortals. But stay on Earth, lovely band! We need more like you on this planet.
Film School - P.S.
Film School - Pitfalls
Film School - Harmed
Official site for Film School. Buy Film School from Amazon or on iTunes Music Store.
Posted by Queen of the Front Row at 01.29.06 at 1:34 AM
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these guys look very interesting indeed -will be checking them out :)
thanks for the recommendation
Gurg
Posted by: supergurg at 02.03.06 at 3:56 AM
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