So here’s the drill. Gang Gang Dance’s Saint Dymphna is out on October 21st on Social Registry. I have an advance copy and am going to sit down, listen, and blog my review/experience live, and hopefully, won’t have the egregious grammatical errors that plagued the Deerhunter real time review.
As far as the music that you find on this blog, Gang Gang Dance is a rather important force, and they have their fingers in a lot of pies. From conducting the the Brookyln chapter of the 88 Boardrums to opening for Sonic Youth (which was my first exposure to the group at the CMJ Music Marathon opening party) to buddying up with Animal Collective and Black Dice, they tend to be looked at as an artist’s artist.
For the Gang Gang Dance novice, GGD specializes in complex rhythms and dense layers of equal parts noise and melody, with tribal/worldbeat influences in both the percussion and the vocal chants. Like the Dirty Projectors, Gang Gang Dance is a New York band extremely popular in the noise kids circle while also, and perhaps inexplicably, gaining notoriety among the indie pop dorks. As such, Saint Dymphna, the anticipated follow up to 2005’s God’s Money, has a lot of dudes muy entusiasmado. Continue reading ‘Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna Review (In Real Time)’
