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Meet the Casual Victim Pile band: Woven Bones
Ahead of tonight’s second night of the release show for Austin-centric Matador Records compilation “Casual Victim Pile” (see our interview with compilation architect and Matador co-owner Gerard Cosloy here, review here and photo gallery of the bands here), we’ve talked with three of the compilation’s most notable bands. Tonight’s performers Woven Bones are below, and you can also check out yesterday’s performers the Dikes of Holland and Follow That Bird!
Save for Matador Records signees and certifiable buzz act Harlem, dark fuzz rock trio Woven Bones might have a higher profile than any other band on “Casual Victim Pile,” with a writeup on popular music blog Stereogum and a debut album due on Chicago’s HoZac Records in May. The band’s putting the finishing touches on the record, which vocalist and guitarist Andy Burr says mines more accessible territory than the band’s previous releases.
“There’s been some maturing over the last year as far as hooks and stuff are concerned,” Burr says. “It’ll have some sort of semblance of a pop sensibility, which we wanted. Although it’s not bubblegum in any respect.”
The band was relatively new to Austin when they flew onto the radar of Cosloy, who attended several of the band’s shows and approached them about contributing to “Casual Victim Pile.” At the time, Woven Bones were steadily releasing 7-inch singles, and offered Cosloy use of one of the unreleased songs they’d recorded for those sessions. For Burr, the appeal of “Casual Victim Pile” had everything to do with the opportunity to work with Cosloy.
“He’s such a big fan of a lot of bands around town and goes out and sees them all the time. He’ll come to our show, and be like, ‘As soon as you guys are done I’m going to see this and this and this,’ ” Burr says. “For us it was way less of an ‘Oh my gosh, we’re going to be on Matador’ thing and more a ‘Oh, god, Gerard is such a cool dude and we could be involved on something he’s doing’ thing.”
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