Peer Validated

Pictured:  Lackthereof asks not indie-rock-weirdies can do for you, but what you can do for indie-rock-weirdies.
Lackthereof is an awesome project from Danny Seim (Menomena).  It sounds sort of like what Primitive Radio Gods would sound like if they were still around, and not just a one hit wonders from the mid-nineties.  There’s bass heavy, drum heavy, mid-tempo jams with bittersweet melodies all wrapped around some sing-song melodies that make you shake your sarcasm-hardened groove thang.  Yes, thang.

There’s a close enough tie between Lackthereof and Menomena to occasionally get a “Oh yeah, he was in THAT band” moment, but enough of a distance to give Lackthereof an identity all its own.  Anyway, Lackthereof is on Barsuk now, which will hopefully get Seim the attention he so desperately deserves.  At last count there were something like 1100 friends on his myspace.  I routinely get adds from fat kids playing sevendust covers with more friends than that.  C’mon America let’s get with the program.

Last November is the best track on Lackthereof’s new album, Your Anchor.  It bounces along with minimal bass and organ until the end of the song, when we get some relative explosiveness (and even a key change).  Anyway, find this album if you get the chance.  It goes great with a pog collection and a half liter of Surge.

Lackthereof - Last November