So Many Dynamos – “New Bones” 7”
Vagrant, 2010
Acquired: KJHK Music Staff, New, 2010
Price: $0
St. Louis’ So Many Dynamos was a band I always heard about
(given their relative proximity to the Kansas City Metropolitan Area) but never
heard a single one of their songs until just now. The rhythm section of “New
Bones” has lingering aspects of mid-00s dance-punk craze which makes it feel
ten years old rather than five. It’s like a Tapes n’ Tapes song. I remember
that band, I remember liking their music, but I couldn’t tell you for the life
of me what a single one of their songs sounds like. “New Bones” just finished
and it has already faded from memory. Hang on let me dig around in my desk for
the commonplace response to this music: It’s technically fine, these guys know
what they’re doing, it’s definitely not a mess, but it lacks the necessary
personality to create any sort of engagement outside of Eastern
Missouri/Western Illinois. The remix on the b-side replaces the dancey drums
with a run-of-the-mill dance beat and I wish they’d just put a stripped-down
demo of the track on the b-side instead.
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