event TV Torso
Also Playing: PVC Street Gang and Followed By Static
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Tim Murray
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Sat Nov 21
10 pm,
TV Torso, PVC Street Gang, and Followed By Static at Beerland
Those asking “whither Sound Team?” after the disintegration of Austin’s former Most Likely To Succeed should take comfort in that there’s just more to go around, with Bill Baird’s avant-pop project Sunset joined now by singer Matt Oliver’s TV Torso (formerly The Minotaurs). It’s more guitar-driven and stripped-down compared with the electro ebbs and flows of his star-making salvo, but that approach leaves plenty of room for Oliver’s signature voice—which, in this fuzz-laden, back-to-basics context, sounds less Bono Lite and more consumed with its own particularly earnest brio. Built on a simplistic, jangling British Invasion riff that’s all sweet-and-sour pop candy, early single “I Can See Your Face” confirms what Sound Team fans have long suspected: Oliver was the McCartney.
Beerland 711 Red River St, Austin, TX
Those asking “whither Sound Team?” after the disintegration of Austin’s former Most Likely To Succeed should take comfort in that there’s just more to go around, with Bill Baird’s avant-pop project Sunset joined now by singer Matt Oliver’s TV Torso (formerly The Minotaurs). It’s more guitar-driven and stripped-down compared with the electro ebbs and flows of his star-making salvo, but that approach leaves plenty of room for Oliver’s signature voice—which, in this fuzz-laden, back-to-basics context, sounds less Bono Lite and more consumed with its own particularly earnest brio. Built on a simplistic, jangling British Invasion riff that’s all sweet-and-sour pop candy, early single “I Can See Your Face” confirms what Sound Team fans have long suspected: Oliver was the McCartney.
Updated 10/26/2009
