SONG OF THE DAY [#297]

'ok!...lobster' | hello seahorse!

wow! hello! seahorse! is! awesome! they! use! lots! of exclamation! points! not! only! in! there! band! name! but! in! their! songs! too!

mark this date: april 8, 2008--the first time a band from our neighbors to the south have made a visit to spitcake. yes, it's true. hello seahorse! hail from mexico city, mexico. i think they should be called 'hola caballito del mar.' i'm just sayin'. viva la revolucion!

so i'm pretty sure you're all going to eat this up. it's really hard not to like. sure, they sometimes run dangerously close to too-cute-for-their-own-good territory, but it's all good 'cos the songs are solid, the vocals charming, the good vibes plentiful. in fact, i had a strange compulsion to whack a pinata with a baseball bat while listening to them. i love pinatas. and candy.

y'all know i'm not big on comparisons, but if you want one, maybe think of them as as mexico's answer to the boy least likely to with maybe a little bit of au revoir simone and camera obscura thrown in for good measure? maybe? i guess you'll just have to listen for yourself, which i think you should. 'ok!..lobster' and 'won't say anything are both from their newest effort, 'hoy a las ocho,' which hit stores, oh, sometime last year. check it out. es buenisimo!

→ hello seahorse: ok!...lobster
→ hello seahorse: won't say anything | video [hey look! the guy in video plays drums while driving! hey, i do that too...only i don't have...um...drumsticks. that what fingers are for.]