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IATWTC, OTR recall past decades
I Am the World Trade Center
brings back the ‘80s while
Old Time Relijun rocks
like a 1960s zombie flick
By Carl Sundberg
Pulse Columnist
These days it seems difficult, if not
impossible, to have a band and play
music that is not "retro." Everything
seems to have already been done be
fore. The trick, for some, is to pick
the right era to exemplify your bril
liant rock 'n' roll vision. (That is, if
you even consider yourself rock 'n'
roll anymore.)
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Two bands on the current music
scene are pulling the reverberated
vibe out of America's weird past and
mixing it into a whole new breed of
groove.
drum machines, synthesizers, com
puterized hand claps and crooning
female vocals to remind of us all of
an era that brought us Michael f. Fox
and The Smurfs.
Before you get a bias worked out,
IATWTC is NOT a political band.
The members are not writing songs
about terrorism or the horrors of
corporate globalization. They came
up with name long before the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks and had no idea
their namesake would soon be de
stroyed by planes. That being said,
get out your leg warmers, feather
your hair and peg those jeans —
IATWTC is bringing the 1980s back
with a gentle vengeance on their lat
est album, "The Cover Up."
The songs of love and heartbreak
set to a Milli Vanilli drum beat are a
nice reminder of a simpler time.
There is nothing better than nostal
gia whipped up soft and warm, and
IATWTC is the band for you if 1980s
REVIEW
I Am the
World Trade
Center is a
duo out of
Athens, Ga.,
that uses
techno pop nostalgia is what you are
craving.
Some have compared IATWTC
with The Postal Service, The Rentals
and even Dido, but those people
are wrong. IATWTC is more in line
with A Flock of Seagulls, Blondie or
maybe Luscious Jackson. After you
finish the album, you might just
get a craving for watching "The
Breakfast Club" or "Back to the Fu
ture" about 60 or 70 times while
writing love letters to Tiffany or
Tony Danza.
IATWTC is so '80s, in fact, that it's
slightly eerie. Are these two musi
cians really just robots stepping
from a time machine with their Her
bie Hancock "Rockit" synthesizers
and drum machines? Maybe. But
there's only one way to find out:
Check out their show at the WOW
Hall (located at 291 W. 8th St.) on
March 31. Showtime is 8:30 p.m.
and tickets are $7 at the door.
The other band bringing back the
past to haunt us is Old Time Relijun
. This band is quite a different ani
mal than IATWTC. No electronics,
no handclaps, no sweet surrender.
No, the immediate feeling you get
listening to the band's latest album,
"Lost Light," is horror — 1960s hor
ror, to be precise. Campy 1960s
zombie flick horror to be even more
precise.
OTR is vampire rockabilly.
Voodoo redneck funk. The sound
track in Rob Zombie's head. Captain
Beefheart's bastard little brother.
Friends of Primus. The cat-chasing
Modest Mouse. OTR is lurching be
hind every closed door behind you,
waiting to jump out and bite the
nape of your neck.
The singer, Arrington De Dionyso,
is a Tom Waits swamp Elvis. His
throat-sung, just-off-key lyrics about
white devils and black angels, vam
pires and tigers will bring the
weirdos and deviants out of the
woodwork or at least their spirits.
OTR channels some bizarre energy
with their tunes.
Ghosts dance around the notes
and monsters peer from the dark
crevices. But the music is less Blair
Witch scary and more Scooby-Doo
haunted-mansion scary. It's a bit
creepy, enough to sit you upright in
your warm bed, but not enough to
throw you from it to check the locks.
It's really hard to put the sound of
OTR into words, so once again, you
might just want to check them out
for yourself. They are playing the
WOW Hall this Friday. Showtime is
8:30 p.m. and tickets are $7 at the
door.
Contact the Pulse columnist
at carlsundberg@dailyemerald.com.
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