Comments on: Voxtrot : The Echo

By: hearsay » 3/austin

hearsay » 3/austin — Sun, 14 May 2006 01:58:07 +0000

[...] And then there is Voxtrot, whose sound is so warm and poppy that I can’t help but enjoy all of their stuff. They were great live, and since they pick fun songs to cover, it is really cool that they’ve posted a collection of covers on their website. [...]

By: hearsay » but you go on and on and on

hearsay » but you go on and on and on — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:51:32 +0000

[...] Since I mentioned Chisel the other day, I thought I might dedicate a post to them . It was wierd at the Voxtrot show to think that it’s 10 years later and I’m still listening to essentially the same sort of music. [...]

By: topomodesto

topomodesto — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:40:08 +0000

except that the kiss me deadly album came out last year…

is pavement any less articulate than voxtrot? i don’t think there is very much about voxtrot that falls into the so called “serious indie” category. they are a fun band, and didn’t seem pretentious at all.

you sure like to classify things.

By: freed

freed — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:20:40 +0000

if there is something that bothers me about voxtrot, its how highly articulated their music comes out at times. there is a kind of technical precision that somehow overwhelms the larger melodic ideas. was their music anymore relaxed live? brian howe over at the fork made what i think is a good observation in his review of the recent I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness release. he drew out a distinction between the playful and ironic indie rockers like Pavement and the more serious attitude of bands like Interpol and ILYBICD. voxtrot seems to elide categorization in either direction. serious in technique yet playful in attitude they are a both and, at times tending towards a certain irratating density. i haven't listened to kiss me deadly. reminds me a bit of drugstore. i file them under my, 2006, the return of shoegaze, post.