Messy Melody - V
South Carolina is quickly becoming the coolest place you’ve never been to. The recent success of Washed Out has people taking note of an area that’s revealing itself to be a hot bed for blissed out, bedroom produced, lo-fi acts. Friend of Washed Out, Toro Y Moi, is the next reluctant star in the making, securing a spot on tour with Islands. One further degree of separation leads us to the subject of this post, Columbia, South Carolina’s The Choir Quit.
Coining their music grizzlepop, duo William Busbee and Jon Dorrell’s sound lives up to its self-professed subgenre. Heaps of fuzzy distortion act as an overlay, shading bright, folk-saturated vocals. What draws me to The Choir Quit is their preference for pairing the messy and the pretty together. The upbeat garage pop track MBUR is interrupted by a high-pitched, out of tune surf rock chorus and similarly, Fa Fa Fa’s delicate melody plays round robin with raspy-voiced folk punk. The unexpectedness of The Choir Quit’s choice of juxtapositions is arresting and memorable, setting them apart from the dreamy surfscapes that have lately marked the music of their contemporaries.
Check out Fa Fa Fa and MBUR from The Choir Quit below and the video for MBUR here.
The Choir Quit - Fa Fa Fa (Sad Song) (160 kbps)
The Choir Quit - MBUR (160 kbps)
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Is there anyway for this to get more gizzlrly ?
wow. thats wonderful….dorrell
love their sound