LAARKS
LAARKS
Laarks is an indie pop band from Eau Claire, Wisconsin that features current and former members of Amateur Love, DeYarmond Edison, Land of Talk, Peter Wolf Crier, The Softrocks, and Sic Transit Gloria. Their debut album, An Exaltation of Laarks, was released on Absolutely Kosher Records (Chris Garneau, Frog Eyes, Sunset Rubdown, Wax Fang) on November 3, 2009. They have since toured the midwest, east, and west coast, including apearances supporting acts such as Retribution Gospel Choir & OK Go, and an appearance at Noise Pop festival in San Francisco. They plan release their second LP on Absolutely Kosher in 2011.
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ZOO ANIMAL
A paradox is not an impossibility. Zoo Animal, the band’s self-titled second record, reveals itself to uphold such a maxim with a sharp yet subdued sound that is informed by equal measures of classical minimalism and ‘90s grunge. This contrast is just one of many as Zoo Animal’s stark, articulate pop music vacillates between gentle and aggressive, volatile and peaceful, light and dark. It’s graceful, hushed, soul-stirring music, yet it rests atop traditional rock instrumentation – simply guitar, drums, bass – that can turn visceral at the drop of a drumstick.
JON SUNDE
one of two Sunde brothers in DAREDEVIL CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT
