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Le Diamant Brut: Paper & MoTel Aviv
What’s the Deal: MoTel Aviv are an Austin foursome with a particularly potent brand of poppy rock and roll. Their major strength is in the songwriting. When all systems are firing 100 percent, it’s hard to find fault in MoTel Aviv’s assembly of the moving parts or their delivery of a hook. If the jangling, ringing guitar work doesn’t get you, you ignore the stomping beat and you’re somehow impervious to a chorus that easily gets lodged auditory canal like an earwig, then, who knows, you might be allergic to fun.
“Suffering Eyes” is one of their more Smiths-inspired tunes. The group really wears their influences on their collective sleeve on this one. It comes in heavy on the vocals during the chorus, and it’s a welcome nod. The song is one of their strongest with its pop-afflicted, easy to follow structure full of melody, ebbing and flowing guitar jabs, background keyboard bloops and thundering drums. And, there’s just something about the line “I don’t know how to cope with suffering eyes” that winks Morrissey.
Something Interesting: They’re playing the 101X Homegrown Live show at Emo’s Outside Wednesday, May 13 along with The Strange Attractors and Stereo Is A Lie. Expect a 7-song EP from these guys in the near future.
Other Tracks Worth Checking Out: “Carousel”
What’s the Deal: They’re a Swedish post-punk, new-wavey outfit who draw consistently positive examinations of their music. They trio’s music has been described as “the missing step between Joy Division and New Order,” and their sound often transitions back and forth between the thrum of synth and agitated noise-punk. Their debut, An Object, came out about a year ago on Sweden’s Novoton, which is home to groups like Antennas and Norma. The band, who refer to themselves as kraut-punk, is comprised of members of The Bear Quartet and Audionom.
Open yourself up to Paper with “Before That Day” first. If you do so, chances are they’ll have you right off the bat. It’s relentless and hypnotic, and it marries repetitious electronic tones and pulses with furious, entangled guitar fanning and a distant accented voice that goes from apathetic to disaffected.
Something Interesting: They’re a favorite group of Peter Bjorn and John. But, in the band’s top friends on MySpace are A.C., a band who is definitely worth mentioning (if not for their song titles alone), but doesn’t fit with Paper at all.
Other Tracks Worth Checking Out: “Strider” and “My Life is Going Under”
