[March 15]
Tacks, The Boy Disaster
Sounds Like: Experimental/Folk
Drinking Buddies: Peter and the Wolf, Midlake, The Polyphonic Spree
Synopsis: Art-pop, if you can imagine it.
Appearances at SXSW:
- SXSW KVRX Day Party (3:00 PM, March 15)
All this week, Voilà! is covering South By Southwest!
Day four, and it's time for the fifth Voilà! featurette.
Today, the featured SXSW artist is Tacks, The Boy Disaster.
The number of remaining shows are winding down. Day four of South By Southwest is really one of the last, because by this time tomorrow, most of the parties will have died down, the streets will be cleaned, and all of the bands that everyone so eagerly anticipated will have come and gone. SXSW 2008 will be over, but not forgotten. But why get sentimental now? There's one more big day of music ahead of us!
Tacks, The Boy Disaster comes right out of SXSW home, Austin, Texas (along with The Octopus Project). This Texas quartet plays artfully melodic piano-orriented songs which ebb and flow through your cerebellum, only causing the most intense pleasures of audio euphoria. Their style is slower and more quiet than the other bands I've featured this week, but that in no way inhibits their beautiful, eloquent musical style. In fact, Tacks, The Boy Disaster is the only band I knew about beforehand - I caught part of their performance at last summer's Wall Of Sound Festival.
Tacks, The Boy Disaster currently has one full length LP, Oh Beatrice, which they released last year. If you hadn't guessed it, they also have a Myspace. They've been touring sparingly, and say that they're working on new material... promised to reach our ears, at the latest, by 2014... Okay, so it's a long way off still, but we can dream!
As for SXSW, Tacks The Boy Disaster has literally been all over town, with three performances before today. Their last performance will be at the KVRX Live Day Party, at 3:00 PM, today. Be sure not to miss it!
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