Posts Tagged ‘Major Arcana’

SPEEDY ORTIZ – ” Live On KEXP “

Posted: June 13, 2015 in MUSIC
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KEXP Live presents Speedy Ortiz performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded May 27, 2015.

Songs:
The Graduates
Raising The Skate
Puffer
Ginger

Speedy Ortiz is an American indie rock band from Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. The band originated in 2011 as Sadie Dupuis‘ solo project while she was teaching songwriting at a summer camp, recording her own material using her laptop. Two releases resulted from this solo endeavor, the Cop Kicker EP, and the album, The Death Of Speedy Ortiz.

The project expanded into a full band in late 2011. The group independently released “Taylor Swift” b/w “Swim Fan,” which was followed by 2012’s Sports, released on Exploding in Sound Records.

Their debut album, Major Arcana, was released on Carpark Records in 2013. The album was well received. Pitchfork Media deemed the album “Best New Music” In 2014, guitarist Matt Robidoux was replaced by fellow Massachusetts musician Devin McKnight of Grass is Green. On January 21, 2015, Dupuis announced their second studio album, “Foil Deer”, which was released on April 21, 2015.

SPEEDY ORTIZ – ” The Graduates ” Live at SXSW

Posted: April 9, 2015 in MUSIC
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Live at House of Vans at the SXSW festival in Austin Texas. 

Members of Speedy Ortiz are beginning to hit their stride.  This band of Western Massachusetts guitar music heroes The band — singer/guitarist Sadie Dupuis, new guitarist Devin McKnight , and drummer Mike Falcone  It’s a rare moment in the life of Speedy Ortiz — a day off. Over the last year, and 2014, in particular, they’ve been Road Dogs of the Highest Order, schlepping out on tours that have taken them all over the United States, Canada, Europe, and back. They’ve been on some impressive bills along the way: Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, the Breeders, Los Campesinos, Joanna Gruesome, and Bonnaroo. shared a stage with Dinosaur Jr., Mac DeMarco, Those Darlins, and many more) on Saturday, July 12th, it’s out on the road again. One of the gigs on their upcoming tour will be at Chicago’s Pitchfork Festival, the eponymous live-music extravaganza of the site that, it can’t be argued, kicked the band into high demand in the first place when it rightly named their album Major Arcana Best New Music a year ago.

Major Arcana takes the guitar acrobatics and straightforward swing of many a ’90s band — Pavement, Helium, Polvo, Dinosaur Jr. — and wraps them all in Dupuis’s powerful, quivering voice and wry lyrics. Sadie Dupuis’s crunchy guitar histrionics are joined by the beefy chords of former guitarist Matt Robidoux (who took an indefinite hiatus from the band in May, replaced now by McKnight), and songs like “No Below” and “Tiger Tank” get their hooks in you on first listen. Falcone’s thundering drums and Ferm’s steady back end tie the whole thing up. Major Arcana is a major success, and it’s only now, with this bit of time off, that Dupuis and company have had time enough to work on any new material.

SPEEDY ORTIZ – The Graduates

Posted: March 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Massachusetts quartet Speedy Ortiz have released “The Graduates,” the second single from their upcoming full-length album “Foil Deer”. Like first single “Raising the Skate,” the new track finds the foursome retreading the off-kilter, hypercatchy pop-rock that made their previous LP, 2013’s “Major Arcana”, a critical favorite. On the new track, the vocal layers are more ornate, the storytelling more elaborate and the instrumentation richer and more complex.The group’s penchant for lovable-loser subject matter persists: “I was the best at being second place, but now I’m just the runner-up,” frontwoman Sadie Dupuis laments of the love interest with whom she was a “French Club drop-out” and then a “law school reject.”

The track incorporates grunge grunge riffs that, when combined with Dupuis’ audible situational frustration, sound ripped from the Nineties underground – not exactly sugary but still an undeniable earworm. Though “The Graduates” is slower and more self-deprecating than “Raising the Skate”  which found Dupuis declaring, “I’m not bossy, I’m the boss” – when taken in tandem, the two new tracks reveal a flashier side of Speedy Ortiz than the one that made “Major Arcana”.

Foil Deer follows up last year’s four-song Real Hair EP, and is set for release on April 21st; “The Graduates” is available for instant download with any iTunes pre-order of the album.