Apr 01 : "Tune Out" - Raindeer (Baltimore)

New Music / Freshly Written & Recently Released (July)

Went to Williamsburg last night. Cameo Gallery.

I had waited a long time to hear this band again. When I had gone to Hampdenfest in 2011, Baltimore band "Raindeer" was a band I heard for the first time. I immediately liked them. Something about the variety of textures in the instrumentals.

When I got home I liked them on all the appropriate pages and hoped for a time when I could see them again.

Nothing ever seemed to work out until last night, when I saw they were going to be playing in Willimasburg on a day when I was going to be working up in New York anyway.

The band has changed since I originally saw them. They've had a personnel-shuffle-around and they've now expanded to become a five-piece.

I liked them even more last night. The extra members as well as the indoor setting gave the band a richer, fuller sound. The band sounded good at Hampdenfest, but that was an outdoor stage with a relatively impromptu sound system set up for a one-day event. The sound system at Cameo Gallery as well as the room's high ceiling and nice acoustics served the band very well.

Altogether the band played eight songs. When I talked with the band afterwards, they told me that six out of the eight songs were new. When I asked about a particular song that I especially liked that had some unusual and powerful drum work in the intro, they told me that the songs were so new, they hadn't decided on final names yet.

So this was a really good chance to get a sneak peak as to what their next album will be like. From what I heard last night, the band is continuing to explore some interesting textures. The new album is titled "You Look Smashing". I'm looking forward to getting my own copy of that song with the drums. :)

Here is a sample of some of their recent work, "Tune Out" from the band's album "Tattoo", released last July.

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6/27/20 UPDATE! ::: OOPS! Looks like the band removed this song from their page!

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The band has another show coming up on Saturday, April 12, at Johns Hopkins University. In the meantime, here is the click to their Facebook page ::: Raindeer on Facebook (CLICK HERE)