Emerging: I Concur

We've often wondered what everyone else we see at shows/parties/bars, etc. do when they're not at those things.  Do they lead the kinds of lives we do?  Are theirs any more spectacular?  What about the boring ennui of our days?  Do they have those too?  We've been known to ask these kinds of questions (and if we're not careful, the moderators of Craigslist will be quick to get tired of logging our IP addresses as we try to figure out the answer).  But we digress.

I Concur, a band so endearingly normal that they took their namesake from Internet message board speak, are four boys from Leeds who are just like you.  They listen to everything you listen to (only they get to work with some of those people in concert or in studio).  They remember what it feels like to be a fan of something as iconic to their generation as Radiohead (hell, they still are fans, so...) and they look to be too young to remember the icons of the previous generation, like, say, claiming to have seen The Pixies on their reunion tour and not back in '88.  Just like you and me (er, most of you that is).

All of this talk about a band while not mentioning the music is stupid, right?  Well, the music is evidence that there is something to keep a watchful eye on in Leeds these days.  I Concur create tight, never-redundant progressions of sort-of post-rock meets guitar-group posturing meets forward-thinking, sometimes this-close-to-weird lyricism.  But what would you expect from a group that loves Low, The National and Mogwai and has worked first-hand with Tom Woodhead from Forward Russia!?  Just listen to I Concur and, if you're like us, you'll have one of those "a ha!" moments very soon after.

(mp3)    Oblige

(mp3)    Exits Are Blockades

Godspeed!