Did you expect to fall in love again
today? I didn’t. Philly’s Telyscopes have me hook, line, and sinker, their
earwormy bait a distant memory in my gullet as I’m reeled toward my waterless
death, and other fishing metaphors. Look, High
Fidelity Drag is the missing link connecting Sloan, the Flaming Lips, and
Neutral Milk Hotel, and I for one do not want to re-up on that pre-intellectual
hominid existence. I’m ready to be washed in the blood of angelic harmony, gussied
up by home-recorded fuzz or not. Telyscopes has it in spades. Is it a Philly
thing? I get Philly. It’s a thing.
High Fidelity Drag is “loosely
inspired by … Watership Down,” and
while I’ve not read the book, I’ve seen the film (and done a podcast about it,
which I’d link to if the internets weren’t so BLOODY CRUEL, but here’s the link to the page that once hosted it). I dunno. All that to say, Fall of Efrafa pretty convincingly built their whole
ethos and identity around Watership Down,
so there’s a benchmark to live up to. But since I can’t really speak very
coherently on the subject of Watership
Down and how it comes across in music or whatever, I’m not going to compare
anything and just suggest that Telyscopes are worth your time to check out.
What do you got going on this afternoon?
--Ryan
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