Live: Lexie Mountain Boys at Silent Barn
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What you cannot see in this photo, just past the Lexie Mountain Boys‘ feet, was a thick and dated cell phone that had been used to call fifth band member Amy Harmon, in Austin, Texas for an unknown reason, just before they before they began to sing. Except they didn’t sing much, either. They whooped and laughed and cawed, finding something like a sister to harmony, though never that pure plain itself. They stomped, too, and took a moment to eat a strawberry and roll percussive shells against their knees. Do you ever see something and think that’s simultaneously perfect but deeply incorrect? Lexie Mountain Boys don’t belong in a cold house with a pot leaf painted by the staircase, but they don’t belong only in a gallery, either. Someone introduce these women to Rita Ackermann, maybe she can help. Is it wrong they remind us of the Harlem Globetrotters? Luxurious skill abandoned for the fuck of it.
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posted on Mar 13, 2009 in MUSIC NEWS
Q+A: Lexie Mountain Boys
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Lexie Mountain Boys, Tuvan throat singers of Baltimore, have recently released Sacred Vacation, a yelpy mélange of acapella and foot stomp singalongs. “You got a boyfriend? You got a husband?” when catcalled from a crew of tough women on a CD is a peculiar thing. Really, Lexie Mountain Boys as a concept is a large pile of mystery. To clarify (a little) we asked the women of the Boys some questions and they all answered separately. Illuminations are after the jump.
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posted on Jun 30, 2008 in MUSIC NEWS
