[mp3] Women: “Eyesore” & “Black Rice”

Written on November 9, 2010 by Dave in Music

l 683c3e38bbec4ffa9d1e3391cae42fc1 [mp3] Women: Eyesore & Black Rice
When writing yesterday’s Wombats post, iTunes finished up playing “Jump Into The Fog” and continued downward, further into the next entry of my library in alphabetical order. This happened to be a song from a band named Women, and I immensely enjoyed it. The song had not received a previous play and was only on my computer because it was from a free Jagjaguwar sampler Amazon gave away some time last year. I had meant to give this, and a number of other free samplers from different labels, a try at some point that had not come around yet. The track I enjoyed, entitled “Black Rice,” was a part of the band’s 2008 self-titled effort. Recalling that the label had available a number of free mp3′s from the bands in their catalogue, I went to the Jagjaguwar site and downloaded three other songs from the band. Included were two new tracks from the band’s 2010 release Public Strain.

Then, later that evening while researching the band, I fucking see that Pitchfork wrote up the band’s track “Narrow With The Hall” just today. The write up was due to the fact the band got in a fight during/after a show last week and promptly cancelled the remainder of their tour, a tour which included several dates in Europe. A fact I had just learned minutes prior on their Wikipedia page. And here I was thinking myself clever and topical since the fight was so recent. I should have known that folks who write about music for a living would beat me to the punch. I suppose none of that matters since I am not even a blip on Pitchfork’s radar, and what we do here is so utterly different.

The band reminds me of what I like so much in Deerhunter. Within their incredible musicianship and song writing chops, the Albertan quartet author a stunning brand of post-punk, filled with psychedelic jaunts amid melodic garage rock. Whereas “Black Rice” is a quick jaunt into catchy garage-rock, “Eyesore” is a lengthy diatribe that changes gears a little bit past the halfway point and morphs into a song you just wish wouldn’t end.

Despite my minor disappointment in learning my discovery was not so impressive, I’m still going to write about this wonderful band, then hope like hell they work out whatever problems that came to a head in their fight so we get more music down the line somewhere.

Women – Eyesore (mp3) from Public Strain

Women – Black Rice (mp3) from Women