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Darling New Neighbors
12+ albums
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Comparisons fall fast and loose with the Darling New Neighbors, who play upon the soft-hard smash like The Pixies and lo-fi contemporaries, the Vivian Girls. They're eclectic without being diluted, genre-mixing without getting lost. The Neighbors (DNN) were born in 2004, when Elizabeth, a classically trained violinist with roots in the Dirty South, met bluegrasser with a heart of rock-and- roll, Amy Moreland. Drummer Karl Lundin, who teaches the children with an actual music degree (a.k.a. license to kill the skins), recently became the band's magical third element. Every Day Is Saturday Night debuted nationally in 2006 on I Eat Records to critical acclaim, landing DNN in two best-of-the-year lists at The Austin Chronicle; reviewer Greg Beets proclaimed the album a "sharp-witted folk- punk-disco bouillabaisse." Dave Heaton, from The Big Takeover, declared Every Day a new #1, adding that the album was "like a laidback but constantly surprising sort of party." Brian Baker of Amplifier magazine captured DNN's death-defying genre bending by declaring them "impossible to pigeonhole musically....If you're trolling around Austin for Daniel Johnston, you'll be pleasantly tweaked by Every Day Is Saturday Night." Rocket, the self-released follow-up, is filled with contributions from the dense orbit of talented players that make Austin a magnet for the creatives. Rocket tapped into local assets like mastering by Billy Stull (Okkervil River, Daniel Johnston), mixing by Jeff Hoskins (
