The Rise
Your new favorite artist can pop up overnight. Introducing The Terrordactyls
I didn’t like Juno at all, but I’ll be damned if I’m not happy that it finally brought Kimya Dawson to the forefront of music, a place I’ve felt she has belonged for quite a long time. Her and Adam Green’s former band, The Moldy Peaches, were the ones who supplied the ever so adorable “Anyone Else But You” for the ending of Juno, and Kimya’s voice is scattered throughout the entire soundtrack. The honesty in Kimya’s voice is the underlying foundation of what makes folk so appealing to most fans. I’m in the boat that believes all music has a sense of honesty to it, but folk always seem to be a little more truthful. The lyrics seem to be a little more honest and hit home a tad more; the vocals would make anyone feel like they could have a career in some anti-folk group out of Brooklyn.
The Terrordactyls are a folk duo out of New York whose self titled 2007 release was as charming and playful as watching a little kid pretending to be a dinosaur. The kazoo-laden songs will do nothing but make you smile, and the lyrics are so incredibly simple that they are borderline brilliant.
The ‘Dacytls brought in Kimya to perform on the song, “Devices,” which is eerily similar to the way that “Anyone Else But You” plays out. Intertwining vocals about why and how the two singers are so fond of each other. The Terrordactyls, however, turn this formula into a more upbeat equation – subtracting the slowness of “Anyone Else But You” and adding in kazoo and some sexy English phrases like “literary device” and “alliteration.” “Anyone Else But You” may be a littler more charming in its originality, but I think “Devices” might be a little bit better overall. And yes, I said I didn’t like Juno.
STREAM: The Terrordactyls - Devices
Posted by Wes Soltis on Feb 26, 2008 @ 12:00 am
