Most foreigners I’ve met in Taiwan are unaware of these bands, but everyone I’ve shared with has liked most of these. Let me know your thoughts and feel free to comment your favorite tracks as well
Thank you for the recommendations. I especially love 草東 and their 2016 album, which is amazing and was a major success in Taiwan (almost all the young Taiwanese people I know at least heard of 草東 if not outright love them). It’s kinda sad that they pretty much stopped making music for some reason (though they had released a single last year, not sure if there were any other life signs ever since…).
Firstly, this is by far my favorite thread/discovery on Forumosa. No longer in Taiwan but didn’t have any friends there who were really into live music. Only time at an indie venue was when a friend was playing… and just seemed like nobody really cared.
Anyway, just spent the past hour and half or so listening to Elephant Gym and I Mean Us. Both are f*cking awesome! Some random observations…
I Mean Us: The opening to You So (Youth Soul) has some shades of Blondie with a bit of surf guitar mixed in? Some of their other tracks remind me of The Cure (Disintigration). I think the drummer is sort of hot…
Elephant Gym: These guys seem really tight musically. I love watching studio sessions live. Love the way they have the bass player up front and central. For some reason, the drummer looks like SNL’s Pete Davidson? The final track of this studio session… sort of like Sonic Youth in spirit if not sound…
I’m glad this thread helped! I really liked Elephant Gym as well. They’re just extremely talented musicians. Their songs remind me of King Crimson with all those time signature changes!
