Delicious musical contaminants
Monday, November 30th, 2009 | musiX, pdX
Neo-psychedelic garage rock has been done to death. It’s sorta lost its oomph, lost its lovin’ feeling … lost in translation, lost in space. Portland’s Bodhi—which I’m hoping is named after Patrick Swayze’s character in Point Break—is an exception. Sure, all the elements are there: Swirling synth, reverbed guitars and unhinged vocals, but the four-piece pieces it together into their own damaged rock ‘n’ roll narrative.
Bodhi quietly released its debut full-length Secondhand Runner, an album recorded here and there in Portland—here being Revolver Studios in southeast Portland, there being the band’s living room. Fortunately the slick production doesn’t undermine the album’s rickety garage appeal—in fact, it makes it even more compelling. Not to mention the band manages to make a country song in “Bystander” feel right at home with the new wave disco of “The Kids Are So Nice” and the pure garage punk of “Honkin ‘44.” What holds it all together are Brian Carr’s vocals, which float and flail in a register somewhere between that of Iggy Pop and David Byrne.
It looks as though the members of Bodhi are finding the drizzly climes of Portland to their liking after relocating here from New York in 2006 … and I must say it’s nice having them here to contaminate the folk and electro-pop gene pool.
Bodhi will perform at the East End, Dec. 12 with Austin’s Woven Bones and locals The Whines.
“Bystander” - Bodhi
2 Comments to Delicious musical contaminants
Wouldn’t a band that records from their living room make living room rock? Thanks for the info, been meaning to get to East End for one reason or another.
March 21, 2010
Bodhi performing on Feels Like Home Ep#2: http://intothewoods.tv/#feels-like-home/episode-2
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