Death of Fashion
There's lots of hype surrounding Death of Fashion so we decided to catch up with them at the Delancey last week. They have the fashionable stylings of the Talking Heads and the Velvet Underground, along with their more recent progeny like the Killers, the Walkmen, the Strokes — ah hell, just read the bio on Death of Fashion's website. If there were a graduate school for those who yearn to scrutinize, probe, and in all other ways analyze what it means to commingle with that famed and beloved NYC sound, Death of Fashion would have an impressive thesis, complete with David Foster Wallace style footnotes and thirty-page bibliography, Arial 10. These Indiana boys ain't in Indiana no more. They've even scored a sold-out show at Pianos that they called "neo-legendary." We're no sure what that means.
Death of Fashion is Jesse Davis (lead vocal, keys), Jacob Bills (guitar, vocal), Daryl Specht (bass) and Daniel Boivin (drums). Check out some samples of their EP, "Lovely and Guilt Free," (Canarsie Records) at deathoffashion.com.
--Monte Holman
Comments
feh. The Book of Lists kicks their asses.
Posted by: Anonymous | July 11, 2005 04:50 PM
Love love love this band!! They're great
Posted by: Gin Siw | October 24, 2005 04:47 PM
no one here is probably old enough to remember the Suburbs out of Mpls late 70's early 80's played the Mudclub etc..
These guys are just like them. manic high pitch voice on lead G. and soprano ballad like voice on keybds.
check it out and compare. Uncany.
p.s. liked them for this reason. brought back old memories.
Posted by: rk | June 29, 2007 01:18 AM