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specials the deli’s features What it is: An electronic hodge-podge of styles rIYL: Animal Collective, Dub, Neon Indian CMJ 2010 LIVE AT BROOKLYN BOWL 10/20/10 Keepaway www.myspace.com/keepaway Keepaway Camp Nostalgic and futuristic, childlike and mature, analog and digital, West and East Coast: <strong>The</strong> Brooklyn avant-pop trio Keepaway straddles these divides and more. Listening to the band’s debut EP, “Baby Style,” it’s tough to tell what’s live, what’s lifted, and what the hell is going on. Keepaway was born out of two overlapping friendships, one forged in Massachusetts in the ’90s, the other San Francisco a decade later. Both involved guitarist Nick Nauman. In addition to Nauman’s guitar, the band builds its songs with drums, triple-layer vocals, and two MPC samplers, which it loads with snippets of obscure European records from the ’60s and ’70s. By Kenneth Partridge / Photo by Kate Edwards “Baby Style,” is experimental enough to warrant Animal Collective comparisons and yet instantly hummable and likable—especially on “I Think About You All the Time,” w<strong>here</strong> the musicians tone down their tribal drumming and psych-dub skanking and approach something reminiscent of early-‘90s pop. On “Yellow Wings,” when they sing of their desire to “be two places at once,” Nauman and band mates Mike Burakoff and Frank Lyon aren’t kidding. If anything, they’re selling themselves short. “I don’t think we’re necessarily going for that mystery,” says Burakoff, who’s responsible for most of Keepaway’s samples. “It’s cool when a listener is intrigued by that, I guess, but really we’re trying to make it blend as best as possible. We’re really conscious about how the sounds of those acoustic and electronic instruments mix together.” “We know what works and what doesn’t,” he adds. “I think maybe down the road, when people are a little more well versed in this kind of music, it’ll make sense a little more. But for the time being, I don’t think we’re trying to pull any magic tricks. We’re just trying to blend together the deli_29 fall 2010
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