By Doug Freeman
Published on October 27, 2009 at 1:41am
We’re skeptical of the timing of this new video from the Sour Notes. First of all, there’s the whole death of Michael Jackson fad (is the death of a pop icon a fad? Sure, why not?). Second of all, we can’t help but think that putting a video on Youtube right before Halloween with “Thriller” in the title is some kind of major SEO chicanery on the part of said Sour Notes! We’re also wondering how director Paul Raila managed to so accurately capture every relationship we’ve ever been in. Well, us and William Burroughs. We’re told this is an homage to Jean Luc Godard’s “A Woman is a Woman,” but we don’t do film, so we’ll just have to take their word on that one. What we can say is it’s a damn finely shot video for damn fine song. Check it out below. You can also next catch the local quartet tomorrow, Oct. 28, when 101X’s Homegrown series hits Trophy’s with Visitors and Candi and the Strangers. The Sour Notes will have an official video release show (because that’s actually a thing, now) on November 10 with Diagonals for Alexander Speed’s debut CD release party. Hmm, Sour Notes and Speed – sounds like a night of Austin music to us!
By Raoul Hernandez
Published on October 23, 2009 at 1:41am
26/200 numbers the green marble vinyl of my Sour Notes‘ 45 “Never Mix Never Worry” b/w “Rose Puzzles,” a forcefully winsome gnaw of Tooth & Nail pop whose “Instrumental” MP3 bonus wavers radiant. Suck on the Sour’s January full-length, Received in Bitterness.
