Listening Post’s New York headquarters (yours truly) are dealing with e-mail glut of unprecedented proportions due to the launch of MySpace Music and a host of other factors including complications relating to the fantastic-yet-debilitating All Tomorrow’s Parties NYC music festival last weekend. Trolling through hundreds of e-mails for some fresh new music, I came across one that contained three songs from Partisan Records, each of which seemed to harken back to other, more established bands due to similarities in vocal style and/or production.
It’s striking, the way these various approaches filter down once a band finds success with it. Remember how many grunge-alikes appeared after Nirvana hit it big? That seems to be happening here with vocals, albeit on a far smaller scale. I’m not trying to make fun here. After all, who doesn’t have their influences? I just think this is sort of interesting.
Here’s each song, along with the name and website of the band their singer sounds like he’s fronting:
Deer Tick – "Art Isn’t Real (City of Sin)":
Vocals sounds like: Band of Horses, which itself sounds like early My Morning Jacket, with just a smidge of Tom Waits
The Standard – "Hotel":
Vocals sound like: Arcade Fire
Holy Sons – "Gnostic Device":
Vocals sound like: Beta Band with a few religious-themed samples in the style of Godspeed You Black Emperor
Photo: sparrow611
