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| Today's theme: unlikely rock. |
I had one of those weeks when I up and decided I hadn’t heard no frills, half-conscious “rock” for too long. Then I recalled a band who claimed they were about nothing else. So I went back to reconnect with the band that brought me “Day Stealer.”
Welcome to the third playlist of May 2019.
Music Band
This Nashville trio was one of the first bands Spotify’s Discover Weekly fed me in the 2nd half of 2016. Note the date…
The experience of trying to research this band underlines the importance choosing a good, searchable name. Over half an hour of trying combinations of “music,” “band,” and “Nashville” pulled up scores of Nashville-based bands (and means of booking them), but none of them this Music Band. When I wrote about them for the predecessor site to this one (don’t bother looking; it’s deleted), I could find reviews – both of albums and live performances – and a couple interviews. Their 2016 album, Wake Up Laughing, was probably a year old by then and Music Band had probably done some touring to support it. Anyway, between their name and the passing of three years, I can’t even dig up the names of the dudes in the band…
…they do have a (modest) twitter account and it appears they’re still active, even talking about another album.
If that doesn’t come out, Music Band will have put out just two albums: Wake Up Laughing and 2014’s (EP?), Can I Live. They won’t blow your mind or anything - one review for Wake Up Laughing offers qualified praise (“vocals that aren’t particularly distinctive and compressed production that doesn’t do these songs justice”), while another one just shits all over it/them (“Music Band? Really? It’s like they’re putting so much effort into putting in absolutely no effort.”) – but the song “Green Lights” left a fond enough memory of them that I circled back. And, no, they aren’t original, they aren’t brave, lyrically or musically. They also make no claims to be. As for what they sound like, eh, this gets close enough:
