There’s something rather charming about a band whose name is unpronounceable. This isn’t about the usual cliches in music, where the name is made strange so that only the insiders have the edge because they’ve been to the right neighborhoods in Stockholm. In a name like Tonstartssbandht there’s evidence of artiness, but there’s an equal sense that these guys also like to laugh at themselves. Andy and Edwin White, the Orlando-born duo who make up the band, have been splitting their time between Montreal and New York these days. It’s not to say they’ve left their roots, not at all.
Coming from the music scene here, the ones who continue have learned how to make their skin thick. It’s a challenge to lure people to gigs from the lovely evenings planned in the resort hotels Florida offers. Even the weekend music-lovers usually pick the clubs over anything live, but their work managed to prove that there was something happening in the city. It gave locals and visitors a reason to head back to the live music venues. Today, their sound is distinctive, moving from psych trance and into low-fi , and back again. Vocal harmonies are strong and at the center, while the fragments of sound take apart the senses in order to reach a space only live music understands.
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