32. SIC ALPS "DO YOU WANT TO GIVE $$?"

here is a great psyched out track Do You Want to Give $$? from San Francisco lo-fi noise-pop duo {now a trio} Sic Alps {Mike Donovan, John Harlow et new-comer Noel Harmonson} from their just released album "Napa Asylum" (2010).

Do You Want to Give $$? is a beatlesque bluesy, psychedelic, slacker garage pop 'recession' anthem. ecstatically distorted, gritty, jangly guitar riffs, fat, sluggish, thumping, crashing, headache inducing drums, booming, twanging, room vibrating monster bassline, Donovan's off-kilter, spaced-out vocals evoke Alexander "Skip" Spence {Little Hands from "OAR"}, he even finds the time to sardonically whistle the chorus amid the distorted, shambling chaos. out of the dusty rubble, the faint sound of whistling rings in your ears, you start compulsively chanting: "Do you want to give / Money!" for the rest of the day.

this is one highly unpredictable, raucous track, evoking a psychedelic benefit concert in an insane asylum for suicidal, straight-jacketed Wall Street brokers.


MP3: Do You Want to Give $$?

check out the fantastic new music video for Do You Want to Give $$?, directed by Mike Donovan et John Harlow {Sic Alps}. the look et style reminds me of Jem Cohen et Jonas Mekas, but it has a definite late 70s No Wave cinema feel to it.

you can buy the "Napa Asylum" album online from itunes or from the Drag City site.

you can check out the Sic Alps here: [SicAlps] | lastfm