Perry's Pick: Drummer

Drummers take on many different personas in a band. Some look at them as the badass or the wildman like a Keith Moon or a John Bonham. Others see them as the modest metronome that sits in the back of the stage as others take the spotlight. Regardless, drummers have never been the most notable name in a band (Levon Helm, but not many more come to mind immediately). Well those days are over, because Drummer is a new band that consists of only drummers. Now wait, before you write them off as just a novelty act you must know that they are all drummers by trade, but in this particular group, they all play different instruments. The group was a product of the mind of Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney, who decided to create the group when fellow Black Key Dan Auerbach took some time off to do a solo album and tour. Carney plays bass for Drummer and reunited with friends throughout the Akron, Ohio area who also happened to be drummers for their former bands. The Black Keys, who play riff-heavy blues, shine through very little in Drummer's music, which could much more easily be compared to Built to Spill. The band molds very well and the fact that many of them are not playing their primary instument shows their tremendous versatility. The vocals tend to be very echoey and spacey, but the band rides on the solid guitar riffs of Jamie Stillman and Jon Finley that shadow the likes of Jonny Greenwood. The band just released their debut album, Feel Good Together, on September 29th. The album provides some of 2009's most creative and consistent indie rock and has already recieved high praise from music critics. Drummer is currently in the middle of a fall tour with The Royal Bangs, another band on Carney's label Audio Eagle. If you have the opportunity, go see Drummer live on tour, but be sure to check out their debut album Feel Good Together, available now on Audio Eagle.

I'm also loving the music video for the single of of the album, also titled "Feel Good Together."



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