The Natural History -- brothers Max Tepper and Julian Tepper on guitar/vocals and bass respectively, and drummer Derek Vockins -- are a smart, college-bred band (Vockins even has a M.A. in Education from NYU). Like a lot of gritty bands congesting the New York City music scene, this trio has a penchant for plundering through art-pop albums from the late '70s for inspiration. They often name-check a wide assortment of mostly British groups and artists they admire -- Elvis Costello & the Attractions, XTC, an...   [ read more ]

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Max and Julian Tepper are brothers, and The Natural History, their band with drummer Derek Vockins, is, in a word, awesome. Not in a burnt-out California-surfer way, although some of Max's vocal melodies put West Coast pop-punkery to shame (exhibit A: "The Right Hand"), but in the New York sense of the word -- an expression of admiration so sincere and spontaneous that the speaker forgets that it really isn't too cool to call things "awesome" anymore. But you can take your pick of adulatory adjectives to d...   [ read more ]

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Appearing on the one hand to be a post-modern apocalyptic cult, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum delight in setting folksy allegorical tales of auto-genocide and the species-wide doom we all face to breathtakingly strange and compelling music. With this release, their musical method evolves, as natural things do, and delivers what can only be described as a complete and thoroughly devastating musical expression. With their dense, harmonic compositions and jagged, intricate rhythms (by far the best in the business...   [ read more ]

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