Brothers Backword live show - video + pics

The Brothers Backword (Passage + Back Ted N-Ted + Mike Buss) performing live Special Education:


Video by Jenny.




Photos by Mae Michael.

"TV Loves You Back" review [OkayPlayer]

Restiform Bodies
TV Loves You Back
(Anticon : 2008)
73
Posted on 12/01/2008
Restiform Bodies is vocalist David Bryant, percussionist Matt Valerio and synth man George Chadwick. I know, I know. You’re thinking wait a minute; a restiform body is a lateral and larger subdivision of the inferior cerebellar peduncle located on the dorsolateral aspect of the medulla oblongata and composed of a variety of fibers, including, but not limited to, olivo-, reticulo-, cuneo-, trigmeno- and dorsal spinocerebellar! And you’re right. But, despite the interests of the biologists and brain surgeons among us, it just makes more sense for me to discuss the musical group’s recent release, TV Loves You Back, rather than offer an exciting and informative dissertation on human physiology.

To gain an appreciation of the album’s aesthetic, just imagine Trent Reznor, fresh off his umpteenth viewing of Fight Club, doing a synth-laden hip hop album detailing society’s preoccupation with consumption, sex and self-destruction. Tracks like “A Pimp-like God” and “Foul,” where Bryant rhymes, “my dick stay dizzy like a busy bayonet,” advance the band’s theory that these things often go hand in hand. Tracks like “Bobby Trendy Addendum” and “Consumer Culture Wave,” beckon audiences to, “fuck like you mean it,” in hopes that the mere act of intercourse will guide us farther away from searching for satisfaction by purchasing shit and bring us more in touch with our humanity. Nevermind that the act of intercourse is oftentimes itself reduced to nothing more than an act of economic opportunism.

Aside from what seems to be Restiform Bodies’ belief that we can screw our way to utopia, there’s a latent contradiction here. Like it or not, they’re part of the society they disparage. In an effort to fully express their disdain, necessity required that they study the object of their scorn thereby making them consumers too. But it seems that, as long as you’re willing to take home the strobelite honey you met in the club and pleasure her with reckless abandon, you’re okay in their book.

- Adam Roussell

Source: OkayPlayer