Oh, Phantom Buffalo, how I love you
(For serious, Boston blogging on the way...I just wanted to embed a little video action, and I'm still on the wait for Google to verify that it's not porno) But I am so excited about this, Phantom Buffalo is back! Phantom Buffalo is a band from Portland, Maine, formerly know as the Ponys (not to be confused with the Chicago-based garage rocky Ponys...which is why they changed their name). Anyway, they put out one album, Shishimumu, which became my anthem album last year. The production on this thing blows my mind. To me, it's one perfect song after another. The instruments are weaving and intertwining together in a way I can't even reference another band to explain. The vocals are smooth and flowing on top, and the more you listen, the more you discover underlying melodies. Sweet lord, I freaking love them.
Anyway, but their website was all bunk and didn't work for the past year, and I would check it every month or so, hoping it would start telling me the band was alive and well, and making more music for my ever so hungry little ears. Well, my friends, today was that day. They have a new website, and while it needs some fixin up, the artwork is swell. It also directed me to their myspace page where you can listen to some of their new tracks, which are just as awesome as I could have hoped. You can only buy their new EP (Killing's Not Okay) at Timelag Records, but you can here most of it (or all of it? I'm not sure) when they played live at Localmotives. here. And expect to see them touring in early june.
Well, I'm excited.
