Waterstrider

I love right now.

Some random band that doesn't suck balls just sent a link to a single titled Redwood, and it's unbelievable. Seriously, the way the drums welcomed me in with the galloping I was already hooked and I hadn't even heard the vocals yet.

Imagine starting a track with Andrew Bird, with the aforementioned galloping rhythm, but then add his trademark pluckage and a guitar lick that makes one twiddle some invisible air strangs, and then what's this?

KICK ASS VOCALS?

Ah Fuckballs on a low mileage 96 Camry this song is fucking balls.

I can almost picture myself taking credit for how amazing this song sounds right now.

So here is your new favorite band, Waterstrider. I've gone ahead and circled and red arrowed you your favorite bandmember below. He is a longshoreman, worked the stock yards in the late 00's, calls his mom "mum", his jaw clicks when he chews and he interned under Steve Zissou last calendar year. We'll name him Sven Thompson, but since we're friends we'll refer to him as SvenT, which is like Seventy, but without that first e and that pesky assumed y.

First: go download this song at the soundcloud below. 

Second: go see these assholes in concert at one of the following tour dates with Gardens & Villa

TOUR INFO

2/7 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Atrium
2/8 - Santa Barbara, CA @ Soho
2/11 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
2/13 - Dallas, TX @ Three Links
2/14 - Austin, TX @ Red 7
2/15 - Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's - Downstairs
2/16 - New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa
2/18 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
2/19 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle - Back Room
2/20 - Washington, DC @ DC9
2/21 - Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle
2/22 - Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Upstairs
2/25 - Brooklyn, NY @ MHOW
2/26 - Montreal, QC @ Il Motore
2/27 - Toronto, ON @ The Drake Hotel
2/28 - Holland, MI @ Hope College: Park Theater
3/1 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas
3/2 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry
3/4 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
3/5 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
3/7 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
3/8 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater