I’ve discovered a lot of great new music this summer. A season, to me, is almost a waste if I don’t. I just love to find new music. I get excited about new melodies to memories, new lyrics to learn, new experiences to vicariously live through. And of course there’s always the few songs you find that mean something more than music because they describe your life as you’re living it at the moment that you hear it.
For a while this summer, that song was Okkervil River’s On Tour With Zykos.
What did I say last month about not doing another Okkervil River related entry until after the release of the Stand-Ins? Well, I’m sort of girl of my word - Sort of! For you see, I found myself wondering something after hearing that song... Who’s Zykos? Wikipedia wasn’t very helpful - It told me what I’d already gathered. Zykos is a band. They make music. Oh really, Wikipedia? How helpful of you! After that one minute of wiki-initiated frustration, I sort of, sadly, let my Zykos curiosity linger by the wayside for a while.
That is, until last night when something truly amazing happened over at Okkervil’s legendarily awesome youtube channel, and that something was Zykos covering On Tour With Zykos.
And thus, I have been on an quest for the day to dig up various bits of information and mp3's about Zykos as my Zykos curiosity has been re-peaked.
Wikipedia is still a bust and the ol’ myspace, while giving me the chance to hear the awesome track What You Know, doesn’t answer the burning question - Is the lead singers real name John? I guess I may never know that one. But I have learned the following : Not completely unlike fellow Texans Spoon and What Made Milwaukee Famous, Zykos is surprisingly fun, almost sort of dancey, and have honestly taken me by surprise - After hearing their cover of On Tour With Zykos, I did not expect them to... Well... Make me want to chair-dance as much as they do. Wipeout (Try Waking Up!) is quite endearing with it’s shout-along chorus and it’s parenthetical exclamation point and Zeroth makes me want to be the cool kid in the back of the hip party, clad only in black and white, smoking cigarettes, drinking diet coke from a can with a straw and looking antisocially aloof while talking to no one and perhaps wearing sunglasses. I don't even smoke! Nor do I drink carbonated beverages! So basically,I mean to say that Zykos is hip. Damn hip. And they make me want to be hip too.
Wipeout (Try Waking Up!)
Zeroth
Oh and also, speaking in a round-about sort of way about Okkervil River, it should be noted that Chad over at the oft-mentioned Everybody Cares is hosting an Okkervil covers project that everyone should keep an eye on, if you're so musically inclined. If I had a camera... I believe my guitar and I would be cozying up to Lost Coastlines after work this evening.
For a while this summer, that song was Okkervil River’s On Tour With Zykos.
What did I say last month about not doing another Okkervil River related entry until after the release of the Stand-Ins? Well, I’m sort of girl of my word - Sort of! For you see, I found myself wondering something after hearing that song... Who’s Zykos? Wikipedia wasn’t very helpful - It told me what I’d already gathered. Zykos is a band. They make music. Oh really, Wikipedia? How helpful of you! After that one minute of wiki-initiated frustration, I sort of, sadly, let my Zykos curiosity linger by the wayside for a while.
That is, until last night when something truly amazing happened over at Okkervil’s legendarily awesome youtube channel, and that something was Zykos covering On Tour With Zykos.
And thus, I have been on an quest for the day to dig up various bits of information and mp3's about Zykos as my Zykos curiosity has been re-peaked.
Wikipedia is still a bust and the ol’ myspace, while giving me the chance to hear the awesome track What You Know, doesn’t answer the burning question - Is the lead singers real name John? I guess I may never know that one. But I have learned the following : Not completely unlike fellow Texans Spoon and What Made Milwaukee Famous, Zykos is surprisingly fun, almost sort of dancey, and have honestly taken me by surprise - After hearing their cover of On Tour With Zykos, I did not expect them to... Well... Make me want to chair-dance as much as they do. Wipeout (Try Waking Up!) is quite endearing with it’s shout-along chorus and it’s parenthetical exclamation point and Zeroth makes me want to be the cool kid in the back of the hip party, clad only in black and white, smoking cigarettes, drinking diet coke from a can with a straw and looking antisocially aloof while talking to no one and perhaps wearing sunglasses. I don't even smoke! Nor do I drink carbonated beverages! So basically,I mean to say that Zykos is hip. Damn hip. And they make me want to be hip too.
Wipeout (Try Waking Up!)
Zeroth
Oh and also, speaking in a round-about sort of way about Okkervil River, it should be noted that Chad over at the oft-mentioned Everybody Cares is hosting an Okkervil covers project that everyone should keep an eye on, if you're so musically inclined. If I had a camera... I believe my guitar and I would be cozying up to Lost Coastlines after work this evening.
