VOICEsVOICEs

L.A. RECORD SHOW REVIEW
V is for Vociferous: Further support for the Smell as a brick cradle of genius was already going off as I loped in off the Red Line at Civic Center later that evening. Most nights the alley fronting the ancient ex-garage is clotted with ladies in aerosol-applied eveningwear and other spillover from the Edison. It was still early, but femme duo Voices Voices was riding a mellifluous blare in the back. More and more, the venue makes me think of a ratbag-indie version of Arnold’s in Happy Days—a hangout for cool kids where everybody gets to be the Fonz—but there’s little of Sweet Gene Vincent or Dion & the Belmonts in Vx2. Such rolling sonorities and deep-space hobo meditations are much closer to Tangerine Dream, so there were a lot of narcotized expressions on dewy faces and two or three fans actually swayed side-to-side, despite extensive post-hippie cultural conditioning. In local terms, VV sound like a lighter Darker My Love or the Warlocks after a thousand hours of nam yo ho renge kyo—a wedge of gorgeous daybreak slicing through a cathedral window stained seventeen shades of black. You can stage the at-home version of this experience by punching up “Tape Noon” (from last year’s Sounds Outside EP) while awaiting their next appearance, scheduled for Spaceland’s Club NME on the intolerably distant date of June 10.
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Why I chose to produce: “VoicesVoices” ?????
1. I have a hard time understanding how a band that sound so sick on just a raw live recording can still be selling e.p.s out of their trunk.
2. I want them to not have to sell e.p.s out of the back of their car, so I said I’m down to help them
produce their music and take it wherever they want to take it as far as my studio is capable.
3. I like the way they do business. There is no business. No money involved allows me not to be on the phone with a label dude.
4. They sang “Happy Birthday” to me the other day. That pretty much ruled in itself.
5. They kill it live. I can’t even categorize their music based on how they make it. It can be listened to in so many different ways.
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O.K. - I don’t what else to say besides the fact that I’d never produce someone’s record when I’m in the middle of my own shit storm if I didn’t think it was already amazing as it is. Draw your own conclusion here and listen: