Cibo Matto

They're playing Philly - just a ston'es throw away! I'm planning to see them when they come in Feb.

Haha I was thinking about making that post myself Stevie.

I basically think of Baltimore as DC, considering bands usually play one place but not the other - can't count how many times I've gone up there for a show. But driving in DC ain't fun, that's for sure.

Philly show has a capacity of like 120 though and is sold out :-/

in other news I might pee when I see them

I LOVE THIS NEW "MFN" SONG SO MUCH

I can't decide how much I like it yet (right now, I'm at like, not love). It's definitely not complacent - makes me excited for the new album.

I keep singing it when I'm walking places.

I listened to "Hotel Valentine" this morning and it really did not grab me... I'm hoping it gets better w/ repeated listens

There's a stream here btw:

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/267029140/first-listen-cibo-matto-hotel-valentine

Cool, thanks man

I'm predicting a 6.9

was looking at the upcoming shows of a local club online and say Cibo Matto/Buffalo Daughter double bill on the schedule i was like did i fall into a time warp?

Oh shit, I forgot they were playing tonight- now I have to scramble to finish my classwork and make it in time...

I am SO EXCIIIIIITED

I like this a lot more than Stereotype A

Ohhhh that was a great show.

Yes but did you pee? I'm seeing them tonight.

I peed so much.

Viva! LA woman has gradually become one of my favorite albums from the mid-90s. It’s quite the creative take on trip hop and I’m not sure I’d even classify it inside that genre. It’s too zany and closer to Beck than say Portishead.

I tend to lump it almost closer to Hello Nasty era Beasties, and Grand Royale type stuff than most trip hop.

It’s better than that shit xxxtentacion thrash

is that supposed to be funny, controversial or just a stupid non sequitur ?

I know it's canonical to a lot of ppl but it still feels underrated to me, it's such a fun, funny, unique record, kind of B-52's-y in the way it manages to be silly without being frivolous or novelty bcz it is so musically skillful

The vocal performances are always enthusiastic which makes it feel more like punk-hop. The beastie boys comparison is apt I think.

Sugar Water is one of those iconic mid-'90s tracks for me, it's got a particular haunting vibe and one of the best music videos of its time.

It samples Morricone and the Cure so maybe that’s where the haunting vibe comes from?

carne if you have to ask, it ain't funny.

YO ANYONE GOT THAT SONG FROM THAT PRE CIBO MATO BAND THEY WERE IN WITH THE SKELETON KEY DUDE? BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT FOR YEARS. DOUG WOLK SAID THEY WERE LIKE THE BEST BAND OF ALL TIME AND ZORN WOULD PLAY WITH THEM.

LOL

For whatever odd reason I've pumped "Know Your Chicken" 5 or 6 times in the past few months and it still bangs.

I stumbled into Cibo Matto by accident with I “Know your chicken”... it was back in the Napster days, I was looking for something else entirely but I got curious and downloaded it.

It was such an addictive and groovy thing... but also I was 14 and felt too self-conscious to share it with anyone else at the time. I just knew it was one of those songs that would give you weird looks from most people if played out loudly or even worse, it would get a snarky observation that might ruin the whole song for me. So I saved it for myself for years until I stopped caring.

https://youtu.be/HuNtddD8dzs

Here they are playing it live with Sean Lennon on bass in some dude’s bedroom in the 90’s.

It sounds too weird for me in rock format.

I love when they were on Squirt TV! (That was a fun show in general.)

otm. Cibo Matto always reminds me of Squirt TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MFpy-yw9G0

just now noticing the Yoko-like turkey wails at the start of "Birthday Cake"

I saw them at a Matador showcase at CBGB in ‘95 w/Railroad Jerk and some other bands :P

YO ANYONE GOT THAT SONG FROM THAT PRE CIBO MATO BAND THEY WERE IN WITH THE SKELETON KEY DUDE? BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT FOR YEARS. DOUG WOLK SAID THEY WERE LIKE THE BEST BAND OF ALL TIME AND ZORN WOULD PLAY WITH THEM.

Nah, that was a later side project / supergroup.

Leitoh Lychee!

https://soundcloud.com/deserter_fm/leitoh-lychee-nothing-to-do-os-ms-dan

my weight is 300 pounds...my favoreeet is beef jierky

who cares?

i don't care

Miho Hatori's new album as Miss Information is sounding really great.

https://pioneerworkspress.bandcamp.com/album/sequence

just catching up to yuka's eucademix material. continues in the vein of her instrumental/wordless albums on tzadik, but a bit more flighty and psychedelic. can't recommend it enough.

she has a brand new track on this excellent north spy records compilation (which is what alerted me to the eucademix alias): https://acrossthehorizon.bandcamp.com/album/across-the-horizon-vol-1

"a long slow blink before the answer":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-kQGFexcSI

sorry, that's NORTHERN SPY records.

elsewhere, channeling music for nine post cards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2oHh4Namic

"yo yo moon" (2024)

big sigh. she's the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4twbxAFXN98