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Throw Me The Statue
Also Playing: The Brunettes and Nurses
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Wed Aug 26
8 pm
Throw Me The Statue, The Brunettes, and Nurses at 7th Street Entry
Seattle’s Scott Reitherman began releasing home-pressed discs of droney, lo-fi indie rock in 2004, but it wasn’t until he pieced together an album’s worth of his Neutral Milk Hotel-meets-Eric’s Trip songs that Throw Me The Statue became a common exclamation outside of the Indiana Jones oeuvre. TMTS' 2007 debut Moonbeams echoes Jeff Mangum's work in its collision of home-recording technique and grandiose intent (brass, guitars, drum machines, multi-tracked harmonies), snaring the attention of in-vogue label Secretly Canadian, which re-released it the next year. The new Creaturesque, full of buzzing guitars and Reitherman's moody, sweetly sighed vocals, is a big step forward. TMTS now feels like a full-fledged band and not just a means to fleshing out Reitherman's songwriting, which itself has grown more complex and solid without losing its quirky appeal.
7th Street Entry 701 1st Ave. N., Twin Cities, MN
Seattle’s Scott Reitherman began releasing home-pressed discs of droney, lo-fi indie rock in 2004, but it wasn’t until he pieced together an album’s worth of his Neutral Milk Hotel-meets-Eric’s Trip songs that Throw Me The Statue became a common exclamation outside of the Indiana Jones oeuvre. TMTS' 2007 debut Moonbeams echoes Jeff Mangum's work in its collision of home-recording technique and grandiose intent (brass, guitars, drum machines, multi-tracked harmonies), snaring the attention of in-vogue label Secretly Canadian, which re-released it the next year. The new Creaturesque, full of buzzing guitars and Reitherman's moody, sweetly sighed vocals, is a big step forward. TMTS now feels like a full-fledged band and not just a means to fleshing out Reitherman's songwriting, which itself has grown more complex and solid without losing its quirky appeal.
Updated 08/12/2009
