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Featured Artist: Tripsiter
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| Sonically speaking, Las Vegas transplants Tripsitter is what you’d get if Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Freddie Mercury and Ben Folds joined forces in some strange alternate musical universe. Clearly, they look to the past for inspiration all the while keeping a close eye on the present in order to help shape their future.
Tripsitter is without a doubt the wrong music for the times...and that’s exactly why people dig ‘em. Their music is like listening to a Twilight Zone-esque radio transmission from a past that never was. No samples, no guest rappers, no watered down Gap store punk, just great music that pays attention to melody and structure instead of demographics. They make this stuff because they want to, it’s whom they are and it’s reflected in their work. This is Tripsitter and you would do well to listen to them as they play music from their own time in their own way.
California Son, by local quintet Tripsitter, is unabashedly pop in every sense of the word, and makes no apologies for being utterly anachronistic in the modern age of plastic-fantastic sampled pap. It's also simply stunning to find a release by a local act that doesn't come across as gauche and could easily stand up to the quality and scrutiny of a band from any top regional scene.
-Aaron Archer
Las Vegas City Life |
For PassItOnNYC.com |
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