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the different styles of music-making we all possess.” Burakoff developed his style alongside Nauman, a childhood friend from Arlington, Massachusetts. Theirs has always been a creative relationship, and before they started jamming, they would build Lego “death chambers,” as Nauman remembers, and shoot their own TV shows. As teenagers, they discovered crust punk and alternative rock, and pairing Nauman’s electric guitar with Burakoff’s synths and electronic beats, they penned songs good enough to win them first prize at their high school battle of the bands. “It was kind of what we’re doing now, only what a 17-year-old would make,” Nauman says. After graduation, Burakoff went to Hampshire College, in Amherst, and Nauman headed to Wesleyan University, the Connecticut school where MGMT and Santigold got their starts. While there, Nauman met Lyon, an aspiring multi-instrumentalist two years his senior. The two weren’t exactly friends, but they remembered each other a couple of years later, when Nauman’s Wesleyan band, Balloon, shared a bill with Snowblink, the group Lyon had joined after graduating in 2005 and moving to San Francisco. This time, they struck up a friendship, and one day, after he’d returned to California, Lyon received a fateful call. “The moment I thought things might work out with Nick was when he called me when I was living in San Francisco,” Lyon says. “He still lived on the East Coast, and he wanted to see if I liked it there. It was a very sincere, straight-shooting move that showed a lot of heart and a lot of gumption. I thought, ‘You know, I really missed out on this Nick dude.’” Nauman wound up moving to San Francisco in November 2007, and he and Lyon began writing songs. While Lyon had been doing the acoustic singer-songwriter thing, he was also developing an interest Muslimgauze and Broadcast—experimental electronic groups he’d learned about while working at Aquarius Records. “It’s the best record store in America, in my opinion, in terms of diversity,” Lyon says. “The guys that run it have really voracious interest in different sounds and things like that. I pretty much moved back to New York because I thought it would be easier to be in a band that sounded like Broadcast.” By the time Lyon relocated to Brooklyn, in August 2008, Nauman had already been back a couple of months. The guitarist had reconnected with Burakoff, who had also landed in New York City, and Lyon dug what the duo was composing. “It was a happy coincidence Mike and I had been collaborating with Nick within four months of each other,” Lyon says. of ‘08. Nick’s sign in the musical zodiac is unquestionably guitar, and Mike is truly gifted with electronics. I’m a bit slipperier, or at least was at the time, so I used that flexibility to give the band what I thought it needed: more percussive crust, deeper harmonies, and maybe a little bit more a of a dance sensibility on stage.” The twin-sampler set-up left Nauman, the man responsible for bringing the group together, with arguably Keepaway’s hardest job. As the lone conventional musician, he’s had to figure out ways to complement the found sounds chopped up and stitched together by his mad-scientist band mates. “The guitar is such a powerful instrument in most contexts, and I think one of the most serious dynamics of our band is trying to balance power between the three of us, personality-wise and music-wise,” Nauman says. On “Baby Style,” released in June on Lefse Records, Keepaway manages a restrained eclecticism. The EP has emerged a bona fide blogger fave, and even Pitchfork deemed “Yellow Wings” a 9. The band recently recorded a song with Sunny Levine, the man behind records by everyone from the Happy Mondays to Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, and it hopes to work with the Los Angeles producer on its full-length debut. “We certainly didn’t expect the EP, which was such a briefly executed first go-round by a supremely young, probably unripe band, to go as far as it has,” Nauman says. “So our more modest goals for the full length are to make music that reflects our growth in band togetherness, and our lofty ones are to slam the crap out of critical expectations and make Lady Gaga seem like the stuff your grandma listens to when she makes cottage cheese salads.” Burakoff, the real tech-head in the bunch, expresses his aims in the language of wave propagation. “I think ‘Baby Style’ was getting everything out on the table and using the puzzle pieces we already had from prior arrangements, and kind of a cool interference pattern got formed by that,” he says. “But now we’re realizing the areas where that interference pattern is more beautiful and more succinct and stronger and exploring those, knowing how the music sounds live, and how it sounds on vinyl, recorded.” “We’re more willing to take a distinct emotional stab,” Burakoff adds. “I think it’s less experimental at this point and more practiced.” Artist Equipment Check!!! Contributing to the new songs meant playing drums and sampler, instruments he’d dabbled in over the years. “I had already done some drumming in several of my previous bands, but it was always much more auxiliary than what I do with Keepaway,” Lyon says. “In this case it was just sort of clear that it was the most central strength I had to offer what Mike and Nick had developed in the summer Akai APC40 “We use the Akai APC40 to trigger clips out of Live these days. It lays out clips visually on a grid so we can spend less time looking at our laptop.” the deli_30 fall 2010
Follow The Deli's Marathon Runners Cover 50+ Emerging Artists! Our writers Alex and Dale will blog about the most exciting emerging artists playing the CMJ Marathon at: www.thedelimagazine.com The Deli's NYC INDIE Charts october 2010 Full charts at: nyc.thedelimagazine.com /top300 The Deli’s Web Charts are open to all bands (not only Deli subscribers) and allow you to quickly browse through musical genres and local scenes and get an idea of how popular each indie artist is according to data gathered from the web (not from our own site.) Emerging Bands use them to find like minded artists to network and play with; Bloggers, A&Rs and Booking Agents to keep updated with the scene. Your band can join them here: www.thedelimagazine.com/signup. Indie Rock 1. The Walkmen 2. The National 3. Yeasayer 4. Matt and Kim 5. Sonic Youth 6. Dirty Projectors 7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs 8. Blonde Redhead 9. Animal Collective 10. Grizzly Bear 11. Interpol 12. Marnie Stern 13. Twin Shadow 14. Les Savy Fav 15. Rasputina 16. A Place to Bury Strangers 17. Noveller 18. Fang Island 19. Delicate Steve 20. Highlife Psych Rock 1. Prince Rama 2. School of Seven Bells 3. White Hills 4. Julian Lynch 5. Endless Boogie 6. The Pains of Being Pure... 7. Bear In Heaven 8. The Raveonettes 9. Panda Bear 10. Blank Dogs 11. TV on the Radio 12. Ducktails 13. Real Estate 14. The Rassle 15. The Antlers 16. Suckers 17. Frankie Rose and the Outs 18. White Magic 19. The Depreciation Guild 20. Big Troubles Indie Pop 1. Broken Bells 2. MGMT 3. Vampire Weekend 4. Miniature Tigers 5. Dark Dark Dark 6. The Drums 7. Fun 8. As Tall As Lions 9. SUPERCUTE! 10. Ra Ra Riot 11. Rufus Wainwright 12. Sufjan Stevens 13. Status Green 14. Darwin Deez 15. Deluka 16. Ava Luna 17. Santigold 18. Beach Fossils 19. Chappo 20. Sherlocks Daughter Roots/Alt Folk 1. Brendan James 2. CocoRosie 3. Regina Spektor 4. Sharon Jones and the 5. Cat Power 6. Forest Fire 7. Diane Birch 8. River City Extension 9. Punch Brothers 10. Nina Nastasia 11. Deer Tick 12. Bright Eyes 13. Antony and the Johnsons 14. Devendra Banhart 15. Daniel Merriweather 16. Trixie Whitley 17. Sharon Van Etten 18. Phosphorescent 19. The Spring Standards 20. Titus Andronicus Alt Rock 1. The Energy 2. Chris Sotiri 3. Stereo Skyline 4. The Handful 5. Steel Train 6. The Gay Blades 7. Alberta Cross 8. Brand New 9. Jesse Malin 10. Lights Resolve 11. Washington Square Park 12. This Condition 13. Star Fucking Hipsters 14. Semi Precious Weapons 15. We Are Scientists 16. The Hold Steady 17. Earl Greyhound 18. Screaming Females 19. Bouncing Souls 20. The Handsome Devil Electronic 1. The Hundred in the Hands 2. Moby 3. Holy Ghost! 4. Sleigh Bells 5. Teengirl Fantasy 6. Matthew Dear 7. Ratatat 8. LCD Soundsystem 9. A-Trak 10. French Horn Rebellion 11. Oneohtrix Point Never 12. El-P 13. !!! 14. Small Black 15. Arp 16. Blondes 17. Scissor Sisters 18. No Bra 19. Battles 20. Au Revoir Simone the deli_31 fall 2010
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