Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival
June 10th, 2011
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In this article you will find a synopsis of each of five of the best bands/artists that will be performing at the 2011 Pitchfork festival.
Animal Collective may just be Pitchfork’s favorite band (after their lukewarm response to Radiohead’s latest effort.) Personally I’m of a few different opinions when it comes to this band. While I respect that they create interesting music that truly challenges me, I don’t always really enjoy listening to it. But with that said I have had some interesting listening experiences with Animal Collective and I would love to see them perform live (I have not yet.)
Fleet Foxes create beautiful music that puts a subtly modern twist on the late ’60s sounds of Simon & Garfunkel and Crosby, Stills, & Nash. If you love acoustic instrumentation, poetic lyrics, and lovely vocal harmonies then you should definitely give these guys a listen.
Guided By Voices have 16 studio albums to their name from 1987′s Devil Between My Toes to 2004′s Half Smiles of the Decomposed. 1994′s Bee Thousand and 1995′s Alien Lanes are thought by many GBV fanatics to be their best work so I would start there if you are new to the group.
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti has to be one of the weirdest bands I have ever listened to. I’m not really all that sure I like them all that much but I do find them to be quite interesting and I do love their song “Round and Round.” Their thing seems to be doing a bizarre version of schlocky 1980s style pop music.
Battles makes very intense rhythmically focused recordings. You are quite unlikely to find yourself humming a Battles tune in the shower. They make the kind of stuff that I can very much enjoy if I am in the right mood but that I find pretty irritating most of the rest of the time.
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