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SHAPES
Hi, Please

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SOUP OF THE DAY: SHAPES is a New York based band that claim gutter-glam as their genre and Weezer, glitter, and amphetamines as their influences.

Listen to SHAPES on BandSoup

“If the Stooges could bone Joy Division, we’d be the lube.”

The above statement reigns true in their noisy yet infectious single Hi, Please off of their Leper EP. Hi, Please is a hyper ode to a looming quarter-life crisis and an apathetic yawp into a half empty beer can, as the party continues to swing in the background.

If this song doesn’t put a sparkle in your shorts, check out their other song Some Folk Song in D (Nevermind).

(Free Download): SHAPES- Leper // Shapes on Facebook

This song, much like their other tracks, are:

“brutally honest and ugly lyrics set to undeniably poppy music. Songs of love and death. This music is the sound of yearning. An earnest, sober (sometimes… but not too often), & mournful acceptance that life will never be what you want it to, tempered by an undying youthful exuberance and acceptance of nothing. It is the sound of going down drinking and swinging.”

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hi bard

well, here i am. i’ve been drinking whiskey and listening to elliott smith. and i know that nobody reads this still. and i kind of like it that way. 

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So i haven’t posted in a while, and I figured since my friend at WolfsDen recently wrote a big one, i should too.  He explains how i urged him to write about his distaste for  David Foster Wallace and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy because his previous few posts were just pictures and there’s nothing more that i hate than someone who keeps a blog just to post pictures they’ve found on the internet.  Well thats not true of course there are things i hate more than people who post only found pictures on their blogs. I’m currently in Ulster County, NY, deep in the catskills, away from all of  that which causes me anxiety. Can’t stop listening to The Anthology of American Folk.  I just received a beautiful pair of beats headphones from a family friend and can’t seem to take them off—they make crappy mp3 files sound great! I just downloaded the two Crocodiles albums and am pretty into them, as well as some other stuff, likeThee Oh Sees

Salem

How to Dress Well

Ty Segall

Bon Iver

as well as some more stuff. 2010 for me was the year of downloading. I created an iTunes playlist which listed, by artist, everything that i’ve downloaded since 1/1/2010, and its something like 4800 songs.  How silly? I’m sort of scared that i’ll get caught but not enough that i’ll go to J&R Music World and buy CDs. This new Deerhunter album is pretty good too i guess. I never liked them much in the past though. I’m in the midst of reading David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews With Hideous Men and its just great. He really makes me laugh. Ok I guess thats it for now seeya

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speaking of which, these guys are good

i found out about them when they played at SMOG this past semester and they sonically annihilated everybody in there-and they’re only a two-piece! and they’re brothers! any two piece band should take a hint from them, equipment wise. and maybe this is obvious, but i never thought of it. he had his guitar coming out of two large speakers, one on either side of the stage, which helped with the aforementioned annihilation