RTP-area local music and culture

["kcollins" <kendrick AT permanentdarling.com>]

>From IndieWorkshop.com

Lake Trout www.laketrout.com/ Palm Pictures

Lake Trout is... well, Lake Trout. You might be able to name influences
of the band, but to categorize them is a fruitless task. They are part
everything. Rock, ambient, electronic, even a little acoustic is tossed
in their, for even more of a classification dodging twist. Funny thing
is, even with all the bases that this Baltimore five piece cover, it
never comes off as trite or forced. Another One Lost, is further
documentation of this. The 13 track, 50 minute album travels back and
forth over a number of musical styles, even making the trip within the
same song at times. But the fact that the band somehow still got the
album to play as a cohesive piece of work is staggering. You can jump
back and forth from bands/artists like Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Amon
Tobin, Girls Against Boys and Placebo, but still never really grasping
if that truly is the band you are thinking about. They are kings of
this...


BIIRDIE:

form website: In the midst of playfully baroque musical arrangements
and saccharine harmonies, Biirdie would be ironic if it weren't so
earnest, introverted if it weren't so yearning. In the end, what
emerges is achingly tender, fleetingly psychedelic chamber pop,
informed as much by Wilco and Yo La Tengo as the lighter side of the
Velvets. With a title that reads exactly like the music sounds, Morning
Kills the Dark is the cozy night-light and the furtive darkness around
it.

SNMNMNM:

from website: What happens when you take three classically trained
musicians, another similarly talented smart-ass and add near-lethal
doses of libertine lyrical liberalism? Aside from the makings of a
killer party, you'd have the primary ingredients of SNMNMNM. The Chapel
Hill, NC foursome combines a sophisticated songwriting style which
balances heavy doses of self-deprecating wit against walls of
deceptively simple tonal bliss.