Here’s an interesting one, Matt Mahaffey (of Self / Wired All Wrong) has teamed up with Leticia Wolf (The Dead Deads) to form The Gherms; a “concept band that makes concept records about their idols.” Their first album will be Songs about They Might Be Giants and the first digital single for “Acquired Taste” can be heard on all the major streaming services.
As you’d imagine, there’s a lot of in references to the band that the album is about. B-Side “Apollopa” makes nods to countless TMBG songs lyrically but isn’t a cover or a direct rip of any particular song from the They Might Be Giants catalog, it’s literally a song about the band and general fandom of them. Just like it says on the label, these are songs about their idols.
Definitely curious to hear more from this undertaking but am content with this first tease. Let’s hope there are some tribute videos planned as well.
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Remarkable! I absolutely love this!
Wed February 21, 2018 at 2:49 pm