Preview: Legs Against Arms EP Release [Club de Ville / Saturday]

Cultivating your personal project within Austin’s fertile music scene can often be a trying task. This MySpace age offers every band a path to limitless exposure, for better or for worse, so it’s not uncommon for your baby to get buried under the avalanche of artists tirelessly peddling their wares. But you want more for your pride and joy. You diligently nurtured it all the way from the time it was just a seed in your head and now you’re ready for others to take note.

Distinguishing itself with a lush sound characterized by doses of textured fury and passages of enchanting pop, local outfit Legs Against Arms is positioned to rise above the generic brand in our city’s congested musical realm. The compositions range from affecting indie-rock to crunching power-pop, and the band is not afraid to throw in some horns, along with a steady supply of chiming keys, to embellish the pieces. In fact, the versatile band members utilize and switch off on quite an array of instruments (saxophones, trumpets, xylophones) to conjure up the sonic splendor. The vocal duties are shared by Bruce Ewing and Daniel Dillon -- the duo started the band in 2007 “amid the aftermath of a dismal realization that corporate life is an empty joke,” per Dillon.

Legs Against Arms’ debut EP Come On Let’s Disappear was produced by Daniel Hoxmeier (Oh No Oh My) and although the official release bash isn’t until this Saturday at Club de Ville, a couple of tracks off the record have already garnered kudos around town. 101X FM recently included “Diamond Ring” in its Next Big Thing playlist and prior to that, the band was embroiled in the Austin Chronicle’s Sound Wars contest, with “The Applicant” eventually finishing fifth. Legs Against Arms is doing the little things needed to elevate its status and further its cause -- join the mailing list and you just might win a copy of their EP or a t-shirt at the show on Saturday. The band also promises “‘super sexy red glow-bracelets’ in the spirit of Club de Ville décor.” It all seems like a winning formula to us!

Legs Against Arms: [Official] [MySpace]
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