As the annual search for new talent concludes,our round-up takes in the final weekend featuring scouse leotard wearers and the ‘most exciting band’ yetCMJ’s final days were both more refined and ecstatic than its start; it seemed just as the festival was gathering a kind of fluency and velocity, it was over. On Saturday in the Pianos upstairs alcove Weaves singer Jasmyn Burke walked toward her microphone in a hat and veil, and looking as whether she were about to tend bees. The Toronto band’s music accordingly swarms in and out of elastic shapes. Songs that could function as straightforward indie rock fill been warped and distended until they seem to obey a kind of flawed gravity. Burke’s delivery contrasts with the ecstatic backing,but it also contains a kind of neutral chaos that’s reminiscent of Jonathan Richman. I had also seen Weaves on Wednesday (they’d played Pianos every day this week), where the frustrations of a deflating microphone stand caused Burke to eventually inch across the floor of Cake Shop on her back. Theyre easily the most exciting band I saw at CMJ.
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Source: theguardian.com