Full Moon Empty Sportsbag

Country Teasers wander expertly into dissonance and back in a way that gives intensity to their music, like having your song and anti-song too. Halfway between the Scene Is Now and Electric Eels (sadly those band names won't mean anything to most readers, but the people who do know them will go, "Oh! Cool!"). Sometimes the music on Full Moon Empty Sportsbag will have a Fall-like circus-of-irritation feel ("Fall" the band not "Fall" the season, since the Teasers are more a restive, mucky spring), singer B.R. Wallers being relentlessly morose while the instruments gaily flip in and out of line (and calypso singers laugh at them, and musclemen throw tigers). Other acts in their repertoire: jug-band music played by windup toys, searing rock played by kitchen appliances, street-artiste music played by clowns and buskers (a passing mime fingers an invisible accordion), sine waves that mimic air guitars (with more fake accordion to maintain the Parisian street ambience, but in 3/4 time for our Central European visitors). - Frank Kogan, Village Voice