Download: The Silent Comedy, ‘Exploitation’
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For the better part of three years now, the Silent Comedy has been the SoCal band Mostly Likely to Cause a Foot Injury. Because if the crowd’s not dancing at the San Diego band’s shows, they’re stompin’, and if they’re not stompin’, they’re tripping over the spectacle of a band looks as if it just stumbled off a back porch in Appalachia. Built around brothers Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmerman, sons of a Pentecostal preacher, the Silent Comedy brings a punk-rock ferocity to their blues-Americana – think Mumford & Sons (whom they’d whup in a bar fight) meets Gogol Bordello (whom they probably wouldn’t) meets Old Crow Medicine Show (OK, a toss-up). The Silent Comedy’s game of dress-up can be overly theatrical, but their music, including November’s EP “Cruelty & Clemency,” tackles some weighty stuff. If you can stand still long enough to sort it.
||| Download: “Exploitation”
||| Live: The Silent Comedy play the Roxy on Tuesday, with Taylor Locke & the Roughs and Races opening.
Thankfully I’ve managed to avoid all foot injuries at their shows and I love them. Crap, I probably just jinxed myself. Oh, and a fight with Gogol Bordello wouldn’t even be fair because there’s like 18 of them.