hype, swedes, jager

“Hey what are you doing tonight man?” my phone said. Actually it was my friend asking me this via the entity of my phone.
“Going to a show tonight” I spoke back to him, into the entity.
“Who are you seeing?”
“Peter Bjorn and John”, a loaded statement, yeah I know whats gonna come next.
“Who are they again?”, the entity poses another question, demands another answer. This is where I sigh, realizing what I have to say to make this band relevant.
“You know that whistle song?”
“Oh yeah, shits kinda played”. He’s right. The song is played. I like to think I had a hand in allowing that song reach similar status as a staple of every house party in my local suburb just like “What You Know” was last year.

The Commodore is sold out and I feel like I’m seeing a band who has had a song in an iPod commercial. There’s unnecessary tension. Imagine if they didn’t play “Young Folks”. That’d be like having sex and not busting a nut. I’m thinking fucking analogies and hoping that the frat boys I spotted won’t be too pissed when they discover that Victoria Bergsman isn’t part of the band.

Writers Block is a good pop album with a bunch of songs unfortunately marred by the ubiquity of “Young Folks”. On it there are the usual amounts of melodic emotional bliss and carefully instrumented emotional loss found on any good indie pop album. Then again some indie pop albums can be a bit boring. Peter Bjorn and Johns performance mirrored their album, all the appropriate swells and charm but still sort of boring.

Then they played it. People perked up but didn’t go as bonkers as I thought they would. The song sans female really lacks the chemistry that makes it so appealing to the ears. Or maybe the song is played to them too.

Fujiya & Miyagi opened with hushed electro pop of terrestrial heights. They sounded repetitive and boring a few songs before finishing up but I’ll leave you with this repetitive but not boring Michel Gondry directed video for “Ankle Injuries”.