Minks - 2011-02-17 - The Satellite Silverlake Los Angeles CA

capture courtesy of fatalblades

Minks
2011-02-17
The Satellite Silverlake
Los Angeles CA

taper: SR

gear: Schoeps MK4 active setup > Nbox > Sony PCM-M10 (wav @ 48KHz 24 bit) > Adobe Audition 1.5 (tracksplits, downsampling to 44.1/16) > FLAC

setlist

Bruises

Kusmi

Funeral Song

Cemetery Rain

Araby

Ophelia

Juniper

Drunk Punks

Audio download (FLACs in zipfile)

A companion piece to my own capture the night before.  A bit re-EQ'ed over the original.

'Funeral Song'

Television...and television

and Hollywood...and Hollywood

Stealing your pulse...stealing your pulse

and breaking your heart...breaking your heart

So long, summertime, I'm not coming back

So long, summertime, and I like it

So long, summertime, I'm not coming back

So long, summertime, and I like it

Falling in love...and falling in love

Stealing your song...and stealing your song

Touching your skin...touching your skin

And kissing your smile...kissing your smile

So long, summertime, I'm not coming back

So long, summertime, and I like it

So long, summertime, I'm not coming back

So long, summertime, and I like it

[Repeat chorus...breaking your heart...]

The similarity these guys have to a certain group from Crawley are in their ability to craft shimmering, catchy, uplifting songs even through their palette tends towards the darker colors.  And that's all I'll say about THAT.

Minks (w/Dirty Beaches) - 2011-02-16 - Bottom Of The Hill SF

My thoughts go out to the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

Minks are Shaun Kilfoyle and Amalie Bruun, with a full band with them on tour.

Both "Funeral Song" and "Ophelia" are favorite songs of mine presently. The Captured Tracks label may currently be on fire with all the quality acts they've featured over the past year (Dum Dum Girls, Thee Oh Sees, The Soft Moon, Wild Nothing, not to mention Mike Sniper's own Blank Dogs) but really the credit should go to the bands themselves for their songcraft and hard work. Even the bass amp packing it in during Funeral Song didn't really blight this gorgeous performance.

If you like what you hear, please visit http://www.capturedtracks.com/minks.php and support the group!

Minks

2011-02-16

Bottom Of The Hill

San Francisco CA

tapers: TZ0, using Sonic Studios DSM-6 mics > Edirol R-09HR

        TH1, using Sony PCM-M10 + built-ins + Flip UltraHD 

        digital camera

Setlist

Bruises
Kusmi
Funeral Song
Cemetery Rain
Araby
Ophelia
Juniper
Drunk Punks

Audio recording (FLAC files in pCloud share)

Video recording (full recording, 720p)

My friend tomzero also filmed "Araby":

Note: A post covering the headlining Dum Dum Girls set is available noe, a mere 10+ years after the fact!  but I'll first wait until their second album is in shops, as otherwise I'd be introducing quite a bit of pre-release material.

  
Alex Zhang Hungtai is Dirty Beaches, and yes, I'm going to mention Elvis Presley, Nick Cave, and Suicide as filtered through a retro-futurist 50's guitar sound, as much as that may make some of you already familiar with his work cringe.  Here's a Pitchfork interview for some background, but for me, I have to admit the way he combed his hair between songs frightened me greatly, as well as him jumping into the crowd during the middle of the second(!) song...but later on the set, he ended up terminating a song by accidentally stepping on his power supply, which he handled gracefully.

Dirty Beaches

2011-02-16

Bottom Of The Hill

San Francisco CA

tapers: TZ0, using Sonic Studios DSM-6 mics > Edirol R-09HR.  TH1, using Sony PCM-M10 + built-ins + Flip UltraHD digital camera

Setlist

100 Highways 

Sweet 17, where he jumps into the crowd, and then climbed back on stage to finish the song.

Coast To Coast

new song)

The Singer [Johnny Cash cover] 

True Blue 

Lord Knows Best

Audio recording (FLAC files in pCloud share)