Origami Records

Charlie — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:30:14 +0000

Origami Records will enjoy a March residency at the Echo with more than a dozen Origami bands, including Wait. Think. Fast., Summer Darling, Writer, and Dame Satan.

The Monday-night residency also highlights the grand opening of Origami Vinyl, the label’s vinyl-only record shop two doors from the Echo on Sunset Blvd.

Monday, March 2
Summer Darling · The Hectors · Writer · The Monolators · DJ Velvet Touch

Monday, March 9
Wait.Think.Fast.· Summer Darling · Shiloe · Two Guns · DJ Christopher Roman of Get Yer Rocks Off!

Monday, March 16
Wait. Think. Fast. · Dame Satan · VOICEsVOICEs · The Late Birds

Monday, March 30
Wait. Think. Fast. · Summer Darling · Kissing Cousins · Lassie Foundation

About the bands

Wait.Think.Fast.

Wait. Think. Fast.’s single “Cien Fuegos” was chosen as KCRW’s Top Tune of the Day (Jan ‘09) and by NPR’s Second Stage as Song of the Day (Dec 08). Interview and live segments from the bilingual band’s Pershing Square “Spaceland on Ice” performance aired on MTV3 and Galeria Alternativa, and the band performed on-air for Univision’s Tu Estilo and Primer Edicion, and Telemundo’s Buenos Diaz. The quartet, fronted by Argentinean-born vocalist and pianist Jacqueline Santillan, has also enjoyed airplay on Indie 103, KROQ, KXLU, KSPC and KPFK, including a live performance on KPFK’s Travel Tips for Aztlan. The band received several “best of 2008″ nods, including best song of 2008 from The Saucido Slant and a worth-your-attention shout out from Buzzbands.la.

The songs are solid without being rigid, and pretty without being cloying. My fave is the breezy, LA-atmospheric “Cien Fuegos,” on which … Santillan floats seductive Spanish over a Beach Boys/Radiohead/Elliott Smith vibe. – LA Weekly

Summer Darling

After releasing three EPs in 2008, showcasing their “dynamic and symphonic sound,” Summer Darling is currently in the studio working on their first full length for Origami. The as-yet-unnamed album is being co-produced with Sean Foye and will be out in late 2009.

Summer Darling is simply one of the best bands in Los Angeles – LA-Underground.net

Writer

The band keeps the music low enough in the mix that Andy’s words are discernable. He’s saying, “Don’t feel bad even though you should” over and over again until, inevitably, I’m feeling-not necessarily bad, but I’m definitely feeling something-and it feels pretty good. … I’m reminded of why I like music so much. Music and art express sentiments that can’t always be put into quotable lines. - San Diego City Beat

The Monolators

… a speed-addled charge of pulsing, punk-popped pop, one that mixes the catchy bubblegum of ’50s rock and the headiness of ’60s pop with the wild-eyed glow of ’70s punk. … the Monolators are one of the most reliable and frantically, consistently entertaining rock bands in the local music scene, even when they don’t close out a show with nine bassists and a massive gong. – web in front

The Hectors

Smart, edgy pop. The Hectors have a sense of humor to go along with their pop chops, which is only natural when you consider the L.A. quartet has influences ranging from the syrupy to Fugazi. It has the poppy ‘Cold Star,’ an anxious ditty called ‘Carol and Sanford,’ and the brooding ‘I Drove All the Way From Bridgeport to Make It With You.’ – LA Times

Shiloe

… they’ve got a dark Sonic Youth/Interpol sound that isn’t hard to become addicted to. Their not-enough-of-a-good-thing 5-track EP features the shared-track Alarms and even though it’s early January, I think this song is likely to end up on many year-end best-of lists. Mine, at least! Highly recommended. – Local Vertical

Dame Satan

The instrumentation was boilerplate Americana–acoustic guitars, banjos, resonator guitars, bass and maybe even a mandolin–but the execution was closer to chamber music meets jazz. The influences, among them British folk, English post-psychedelic blues rock, spare Delta blues and the sort of weird Americana the Grateful Dead sometimes hinted at, melded into an original whole whose presence was rather startling. – Sacramento News & Review

Kissing Cousins

Over three EPs for Orange County-based Velvet Blue Music, Kissing Cousins are happily all over the map — dispensing infectious girl-pop, slightly bent balladry and spiky anthems with schoolgirl enthusiam and postgradute aplomb. It’s never too serious, though — at a recent show at the Echo, they also dispensed cotton candy. – LA Times

VOICEsVOICEs

These two lovely ladies don’t just make “pretty” music – they create sensational, astro-projecting euphoria. Nico Turner and Jenean Farris have been compared to non-lyrical band Explosions in the Sky, yet the music of VOICEsVOICEs takes one to a whole other world. Their use of pedals, looping, spellbinding vocals, and heartrending drumming have even gotten fans to feel a sexual charge throughout their performances. – BeatCrave

The Lassie Foundation

It finds the simplest ways of saying the most beautiful things. The most honest ways of making the past sound like the present. Curveball turns of structure disguised as pop song-writing formula, outros twice as long as they should be (only found in the end to be the perfect length), an almost-too-long instrumental sequence falling into a nearly-too-late chorus, tying itself together and fading into the dark. First times feel like subtle memories and simple gestures take heart. – Patrol Magazine

Two Guns

… carving circumference around bedrock band inspirations like Elliot Smith, Wilco and Radiohead … and keeping space within for carefully plotted pop that wears a McCartney/Rhodes comparison snugly. – The District Weekly

The Latebirds

… a feeling of twilight, of dusk, of that strange time of day when the land is changing tone and shape permeates Insomnia. You feel it in songs like “Blue Horses,” whose anguised, lovelorn lyrics are not so much sung but confessed into the microphone, fusing at some point with the fuzzed-out bassline and prickly guitar. You feel it in “Set Free the Radio,” a rollicking rock song, seemingly a message from another decade … – Stranded In Stereo

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