On Monday, Dead Confederate's "It Was a Rose" was featured on NPR's weekly radio show All Songs Considered, alongside Anthony and the Johnsons, Raphael Saadiq and Woven Hand. You can check out the show by clicking the banner below.
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Jun 12, 03:43 PMDead Confederate reviewed on Three Imaginary Girls!he Sleepwalker interviewed Dead Confederate for Three Imaginary Girls and reviewed their recent gig at TT the Bear's in Cambridge, MA.
"First, let me start with the basics: Without even the slightest slice of hyperbole, Dead Confederate is now my current favorite band. They had already bowled me over with their debut EP, the best thing that I have heard this year. … "The Rat," perhaps my favorite song of 2008, and apparently a significant catalyst in the chemical reactions of the band, also deserves specific mention.
In addition to a tremendous rendition of "The Rat," Dead Confederate put on an almost overwhelmingly compelling performance from start to finish, filling a 40-minute set with three songs from their self-titled EP and four songs from their full length debut, due in September. The backlit stage provided a deliciously creepy backdrop for the eerie journey through the dark and slow to the fast and heavy. The songs were emotionally perfect as the entire band lurched through melodic constructions that boiled with tension until they exploded into precisely spastic, climactic crescendos.
Although it was easy to scribble a list of influences observable in the songs, it was impossible to come up with a single critical match exemplifying what any single song sounded like. The band was clearly not only confident playing off one another, but more uniquely, each member was free to contribute in his own personally fulfilling way. The brilliance of the band is something abstract, but simplistic. The fellows of Dead Confederate have extremely distinctive individual personalities, individual appearances, and individual tastes. The band, however, has an uncanny collective consciousness that makes for some of the most powerful, tight, and original music that I have heard in a long time. I see tremendous success in their future. Do not miss your chance to see them before their full-length is released and every music fan on the planet is camping out to get front-row seats to their arena shows."
To read the whole review, watch the video interview and check out some live footage, go HERE!