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Some tame beasts do dance, some wild do roar |
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| Location: | PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Oct 18, 2008 (386 days back) |
About Me |
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| Their music feels experimental but never amorphous; there are sturdy lines framing these compositions. Their individual voices are unique and indelible, and it might not seem as though they'll blend -- but then they do, and the harmonies are otherworldly. They are transcendent but discursive, emotive yet literary. They use acoustic instruments, brass, delicate percussion, pedal steel, guitar loops and a bowed banjo that sounds like a flute section playing slightly out of phase. The resulting product feels ruminative, bright and hazy, like an overexposed photograph of a condominium subdivision with the hot sun glinting off of blue glass. Tris McCall - Courier News, New Jersey Despite the generic title theyve attached to their official debut release, Philadelphia quintet Like Moving Insects make a joyously cracked and wildly diverse noise on Musical Album. Like a master chef rooting through a refrigerator full of leftovers, LMI makes a full course sonic meal from the musical scraps of a dozen different genres. LMI imagines a studio where Burt Bacharach produces klezmer bands (Executive Elevator) while Neil Young fronts Centro-matic in the next booth (A Cleanser) and Paul Weller hooks up with the folk/pop session players across the hall (A Grey, Boiling, Cartoon Cloud Song) just as a Pavement reunion breaks out in a lobby filled with acoustic instruments (Weve Come a Long Way Since Morning) and everybody gets together for a hootenanny jam at the end of the day (Fishing with Hounds). Mournful and laconic with an undercurrent of resigned joy, Like Moving Insects are human kaleidoscopes, fracturing their brightly colored knowledge of the disparate generations of folk, pop, country and rock into a beautiful and original new pattern. Brian Baker - Amplifier Magazine Theres a whole mess of ragged, achy grace to Musical Album, the debut LP from Philadelphias multi-instrumental five-piece Like Moving Insects. The albums so twangy, youd think these city boys had stumbled onto Grampys still. Heres to hoping the guys in the band have all their teeth. The twang on this album is especially impressive considering the good ol boys from Like Moving Insects seem to have figured out a way to seamlessly bridge the gap between their countrified tendencies, which imbue the album with a bucolic pasture and pedal steel idyll and their own unique brand of tortured melodies. On Musical Album, sax, trumpet and moog take bowed banjo and pedal steel by the hand, round yer partner dosey do, and the result is a pretty darn original, if almost shockingly under produced, first album. Ryan McCarthy - Delusions of Adequacy 1/31/2005 "I haven't felt that stimulated and relaxed at the same time since i brought a hooker to Sizzler." Brian Stewer |
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Music:Member Since: 2/7/2005Band Website: likemovinginsects.com Band Members: Tom Bendel- Drums, Vocals Josh Marcus- Vocals, Guitars, Banjo Jon Francis- Bowed Things, Vocals Todd Starlin- Vocals, Keyboards, Trumpet Noam Levy- Lap Steel, Bass Sounds Like: .. Record Label: amBiguous CITY! Records Type of Label: None |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Folk / Ambient / Soul) |
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Sorry About the Snow |
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| our apaologies for the bum rip of "Snowing in April". here is the complete and uncut version (http://www.zshare.net/audio/20234479824c3bac/) for your ears. amend it to your burning bridge.
fool... Posted by Like Moving Insects on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:28:00 PST |
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New Free Record Download |
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| hello once again, time has passed, that is for sure. we scratched our gigantic beardstache the other day and found our long-lost second recording. we must have forgotten to give it to... Posted by Like Moving Insects on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:21:00 PST |
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Look at the shiny thing!!! |
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| Here come the Judge. The Master Blaster soon gets his hands on the goods. Polishing up the dull bits and grinding down the rough edges. Our least favorite portion of the evening.&nbs... Posted by Like Moving Insects on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:06:00 PST |
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Ancient batteries, homemade amusement parks and a green salad. |
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| Recordings must be tested rigorously. Turgor, buoyancy and infallible wit must all reach acceptable levels before an album can be released.The new record was given a handful of chips in Atlantic City... Posted by Like Moving Insects on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:16:00 PST |
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Full set available.... |
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| We've posted a live set we played at Penn's Writers House in late April on the web site (www.likemovinginsects.com). It's not the best recording or preformance but it's all we got. You can... Posted by Like Moving Insects on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:46:00 PST |
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EP=Downloadable |
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| Like Moving Insects free Stormy Weather EP has finally been digitized for download directly from our fancy pants web site (www.likemovinginsects.com). Even with all the ones and zeros we think it ... Posted by Like Moving Insects on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
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