Say Hi
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Tour Dates 03/06/09 Neumos Seattle, Washington
03/12/09 Bottom Of The Hill SF, CA 03/13/09 The Echo Los Angeles, CA 03/14/09 Beauty Bar Las Vegas, NV 03/15/09 Plush Tucson, Arizona 03/17/09 Longhorn Saloon Ft. Worth, TX 03/19/09 Room 710 Austin, TX 03/20/09 SXSW Austin, TX 03/21/09 SXSW Daystage Austin, TX 03/21/09 The Parish Austin, TX 03/22/09 Hi-Tone Cafe Memphis, TN 03/23/09 The End Nashville, TN 03/24/09 Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, GA 03/25/09 Plaza Bowl Richmond, VA 03/26/09 Black Cat Washington,DC 03/27/09 Johnny Brenda’s Philadelphia, PA 03/28/09 The Bell House Brooklyn, NY 03/29/09 Mercury Lounge New York, NY 03/30/09 Middle East Upstairs Cambridge, MA 03/31/09 Garfield Artworks Pittsburgh, PA 04/02/09 Circus Columbus, Ohio 04/03/09 Beat Kitchen Chicago, Illinois 04/04/09 7th Street Entry Minneapolis,MN 04/05/09 The Slowdown Omaha, NB 04/06/09 The Hi-Dive Denver, Colorado 04/07/09 Kilby Court Salt Lake City, Utah 04/08/09 Neurolux Boise, Idaho 04/09/09 Holocene Portland, Oregon Discography
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They’ve been pretty constant because the music and direction are from mostly one person: Eric Ellbogen. He writes and records his music, usually at home on his mac. Well their latest album is called Oohs & Aahs and it was just released last Tuesday, March 3rd, through Barsuk Records.
I managed to listen to the album three times, as I’m writing this, so it’s a really short, but sweet, album. Sweet songs includes organ-sounding “Audrey” and “The Stars Just Blink For Us”. Ellbogen’s vocals reminds me of lazy-man Strokes singer, Julian Casablancas, on these songs.
“November Was White, December Was Grey” was the lead single/song that they released in anticipation to this album, which had great a right-only speaker guitar playing, but forgettable. His singing on this one had a lot of breathing too, which I didn’t really enjoy. If you don’t believe me, you can download the song yourself via Spin.com. The only good news is that Winter is almost gone here… and yes, I’ll feel a lot better once Winter’s gone.
My favorite songs on the album are the upbeat ones. Particularly “Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh” and “One, Two … One”. These songs are the songs I can’t explain why I like, but I can just play them over and over again and not get bored.
On “One, Two”, the low quality guitar and percussions makes it very simple to dance and groove to.
Plus clapping is always a bonus!
Overall, these songs are short pop songs, with analog/mono homemade sound quality – that’s endearing and personal. They are setting out on tour to promote this album for 2009, so be sure to check them out if they’re touring your area. I may try and catch them at SXSW, but since they’re returning to Minneapolis in April, it will be no big deal if I miss them in all the SXSW madness.
You can buy all of Say Hi’s records via our favorite record label or online at amazon.
03/04/2009 22:20:04 ♥ vu (
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