Lithics - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) 

yeah dude, people just don't get it.

Interesting. I just barely discovered them on Henry Rollins' show on KCRW, where he typically plays an eclectic mix of punk and what not from the '70s until now. When I heard LITHICS on his show, I automatically assumed he was playing something from the late '70s-early '80s period, simply because of the feel and arrangement. I was surprised that they were a contemporary band. Cool stuff.

thanks, really.

right...🌟🤍

Or the Contortions, take your pick.

no.

everyone likes different bands/sounds, just cause you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't good ;)

what hate?

DEVO. there thats the influence. ;)

Man, I thought in DEVO too.

It's got a splash of Pere Ubu's Modern Dance innit, does it not? I certainly thought about Non-Alignment Pact when I heard her voice against that timing and rhythm.

M. K. it's closer to zolo and pronk than no wave, it's not noisy or as jagged

Dan Gimberg it's rhythmic and intensely danceable with inventive riffs, the mixture of zolo (see XTC) and pronk (see Cardiacs) is done very well.

I just love how unique they sound

Theresa mentioned Talking Heads in another comment and it definitely reminds of the first half of Remain In Light, but i also wish Talking Heads went this far experimentally more often in their career

Albin Lundholm I too like how unique this sound is. It's what I love about art punk as an aesthetic, not just a genre.

first song reminds me Sonic Youth. I really don't like this band anyway.

Iago Brunetto my intial thought as well

THIS

totally, but that is a good thing.

not expressive and jerky enough

It's just that they started of so horribly, once later on half of the band started playing sort of cohesively it comes as such a relieve.

oh also lithics is it

Suburban Lawns

U.S. Maple

well aware Kat was all over the place vocally, but that drone tone.................. its soooooo familiar........

Cole Schlumbohm not going to argue. I’ve been listening to this band nonstop since I saw them with Malkmus in Pittsburgh last week. So dope.

Clownsec Oh shit don't hear Arab on Radar mentioned much. I can see it but Arab on Radar are more like noise-rock, spoken word, and are poly-metric/odd signature asf.

yeah I was mostly referring to the atonal guitar riffs, the feel of the band is completely different.

Clownsec Right on 👉😎👉

Labor is like an Arab on Radar song in slow motion, I hear it.

Had to hi5 on AOR. Still my favorite band ever. AOR is the only rocktype band I know of to completely strip away all cliches of rocktype music and invent something entirely original. I love lithics but you can clearly hear influence. Arab on Radar had their own stage movements, their own guitar sound: clean tone, overdriving a tweeter cabinet: clean distortion. I personally love that Lithics have been basically described as amateur and untrained in music rules...AOR, thats just a bunch of noise. The joke is both on and lost by those listeners. When playing live they consistently perform note for note or half or wrong note recreations of their recorded work. These people are great musicians. They're doing us all a favor by providing an escape from clone music..even amongst the paint by weird numbers clones in their own genre. Just go check out AOR on 31G, their release on that label vs every other band on that label. Stark.

They are now.

And that stare...!

Gaba i agree.... they suck... for my preferences atleast

Gaba You must've heard some great high school bands in your days then

Albin Lundholm how could you love this?

Seems like the band is tone deaf

this is progressive punk, I'm sorry that it goes over your head. Try listening to Devo, Television, and Talking Heads.

Then maybe stop using them

21 52 try and play the songs, it's prog punk (aka well above a plebians skill level)

Nope it isn't, I could play all the parts of every instrument on every song. And even if it was very technically demanding, that wouldn't change the fact that it's sounds horrible and yet is pretty bland.

Henk .is cool my sentiments exactly

Well, friend, I'm actually not unfamiliar with Minutemen and Fugazi. It's pretty funny how this kind of stuff gets people comparing you to such great bands as Fugazi and Talking Heads. I have a pretty close point of reference for this: playing and improvising with people who do not really know what notes belong in what scales. The only thing they can is either play a random basic chord progression (check) or rhythmically pick single notes that don't fit at all in the musical context (check). I know it's not right to look at it only from a musicianship perspective rather than like a piece of music, but it gives you a pretty strong clue that there isn't any grand plan.

Henk .is cool = Henk .is tool

Yeah I've heard of DNA Mirielle Cervenka is Exene's (from X) sister... This can hardly be called no wave

Sad!

lmao dis nigga watches paul joseph watson

This is what happens when people with very, very limited knowledge of post punk and no wave comment. Pretty sad, really.

And what are you doing?

bruh, ur life too!