Avi Buffalo Plays a NY Show (w/ Final Fantasy!!!)

Ahhh...I just read their myspace...they signed with Sub Pop. If you click the label below you'll see that I wrote about them in June of 2008, back when I wrote in my blog religiously, and had a passion for finding amazing new music. Remember that post? I said that they needed a couple of years to "marinate". They album drops this spring. Thats about 2 years. Sometimes I amaze myself. And I'm really modest. As a side note: my mom read that post and called me about "smoking bowls and stealing traffic cones". Thanks Mom.

Anyways, they are playing on January 16th at Pianos, and the 18th at Bowery Ballroom. I think I might try to stop in and check them out...They are very california sunny etc. Check them out here.

<3 The Elephant

Avi Buffalo Makes You Look Like an Untalented Wretch

What did you do in High School? I played violin, drank Mike's Hard Lemonade, smoked an occasional bowl and stole orange street cones. Avi Buffalo, started a band, and a pretty decent one at that. Its orchestral soothing folk, reminiscent of Fleet Foxes and maybe a little bit of Thao. There is also a bit of Sufjan in there, but without the religious undertones. They have slightly childish voices and a strong sense of innocence, but perhaps I just sense that because I know they are so young. I think they need a couple more years to marinate, to grow and be grown up. To figure out what their lyrics should be. To become a truely great musician takes that. Listen to them, and try not to move, lest the heat kill you. The soothing music will help you meditate the heat away. Or whatever.