Summer Camp: Les Racquet & Landlady
By Aaron Stein Aug 5, 2015 • 8:00 am PDT
Les Racquet: Tybee One
With 5 years of live gigging in the bag, Les Racquet is a band best experienced live. Lucky for us, they’ve gone ahead and released a live album on Bandcamp. The release, Tybee One, named after the club in home-base Savannah, Georgia where it was recorded, is a perfect summary of the band’s talents and charms. Catchy indie rock riffs, mature-beyond-their-years three-part harmonies, sharp left-turn genre-jumping changes and several doses of freewheeling, free-spirited, peaking jams … It’s all there for the taking in a well-mixed, great-sounding package.
Bandcamp: http://lesracquet.bandcamp.com/album/tybee-one
Landlady: Heat
The more you pay attention to Landlady, the harder they are to pin down exactly – but that’s what makes them such an exciting band to pay attention to. While there’s no one good place to start, you could do worse than the new EP Heat in which band leader/mastermind Adam Schatz does in five tracks what few others could manage in a career. The set features two terrific covers – a take on the Talking Heads’ “Mind” feels perfectly like a Landlady original here – a couple old/new originals and a fresh-take remix of their staple “Dying Day” by Dosh. There’s some high risk/reward potential here with Heat, so enjoy!
Bandcamp: https://landlady.bandcamp.com/album/heat
