Streetwise, From the Big Bang

Day: 12/6/06, off and on until the present
Song: many
Artist: Signal to Trust

12/6 as we were packing up at the store, someone put on the new Signal to Trust. As a fan who had given up on waiting for them to realize their potential, I am happy to say I was wrong. Really good indie rock in a 90s east coast/DC post-punk way. A lot of their sound reminds me of the unjustly overlooked The Van Pelt. Part of it is a similar vocal style, but the more interesting connection is the way each band makes suprisingly moving music out of stripped down parts and abstractly narrative lyrics. There are a surprisingly wide range of sound here from Sonic Youth and Spoon to a song that sounds like a lost track from Isn't Anything - but they have enough of their own style that I didn't really noticec at first. Irresistable for the kind of person whose interest is peaked by words like "angular", "indie rock", and "post-" (ie your humble reporter.)