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Mar 19th, 2008 - 07:43:02 |
A Spacehip Tripping Over Dusty Stars:
Blitzen Trapper
Blitzen
Trapper is a cowboy-hat-wearing-samurai-beatnik who sports Converse,
rides the subway, plays a Fender and lugs around a bottle of moonshine.
With spilled out charm, BT’s ramshackle anthems of wilderness wandering
folk, lo-fi experimental shred and subtle electronic warbling are
steadily and organically invading record stores, the Internet and your
mind with their third release, Wild Mountain Nation.
“We like
to think of ourselves as highly productive saints and angels,” says
singer/guitarist Eric Earley. “Ridiculous visionaries trying to find
the last unicorn.”
This band is also heavy
on environmental influence: “If you grow up in Oregon like we did, the
outdoors is just what happens,” Earley says. “After the high school
football game you go off-roading, getting in adventures in the woods,
family outings are always camping … it’s Oregon!”
“Everyone
kinda keeps to themselves in Portland,” he says, addressing the town's
reputation as a noted axiom of indie rock. “I think that’s why people
move there: you can be anonymous in a way, and then when you leave you
can be someone else.”
The jet-packed-badger-hunting-mountain men of Blitzen Trapper quarry through the Blind Pig this Friday. | RDW
Blitzen Trapper • July 27 • Blind Pig
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