Kevin Bronson on November 29th, 2012

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Since releasing their debut “Sounds People Can Hear” two years ago, the New Limb has been making all kinds of good noise. The L.A.-based quintet has upped its game as a live act, teased by releasing the should-be hit “Refugees” and shown a keen sense of adventure in recording some choice cover songs, including, memorably, Usher’s “Climax.” The band is “90% done with our new album,” guitarist Dan Perez says, and this week the New Limb took a cue from the hip-hop world and released a free mixtape. “Inconsistencies” offers live-session recordings of songs new and old, some choice covers (including “Wonderwall” recorded live at the Bronson Caves) and, most interestingly, a “response” to the M83 hit “Midnight City.”

Explains Perez: “It seemed like a fun challenge to re-record all of the music to ”˜Midnight City.’ In hip-hop, artists will sometimes take out the verse melodies of songs and leave the hooks, so that’s we did. We re-wrote the verse melodies and lyrics as a direct response to the original song. Our version has the personified city responding to the speaker of the M83 lyrics, expressing solitude and neglect. ”˜With everyone within I’m alone.’ ” As for the 14-track “Inconsistencies” as a whole, Perez says: “This mixtape is like a bouquet of apology flowers to our incredibly patient fans.”

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Inconsistencies Mixtape by The New Limb Mixtape


||| Live: The New Limb plays Dec. 3 at the Bootleg Bar.

Photo by Laurie Scavo from the New Limb’s recent KCSN/Buzz Bands LA show at the Federal Bar.