Ever since the first Advantage album featured covers of classic Nintendo tunes with the grit and muscle of underground rock, I’ve been hoping they might attempt a record of original compositions in the same vein. Yet for some time now, mirroring the rise of stylized recording techniques, highly melodic contrapuntal works have been out of fashion. There’s a sense in the rock world that, harmonically and melodically at least, everything’s been done; many bands react with musical simplicity alongside textural overload.
These are photos from concerts where What's Up played, so they may be of other bands that played the concert as well.
Deerhoof / What's Up Jul 14, 2009 Offenbach, Hesse, Germany Uploaded by Nils Wortmann