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Eksi Ekso
12+ albums
post-rockexperimentalindieinstrumentalindie rock
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“Brown Shark, Red Lion is the most interesting and challenging pop album I’ve heard so far this year.” - My Old Kentucky Blog “Eksi Ekso soars, slashes, and burns and chimes again on its sophomore full-length, Brown Shark, Red Lion,’’ - Boston Globe “…a near-perfect synthesis of the band’s ambitious statement of intent and secret love of pop. Linking up sampled noises, instrumental breaks, and chamber swells, Eksi Ekso takes the every-song-is-a-huge-crescendo mentality of general post-rock and arc-welds it to great verse-chorus-bridge popcraft that belies the band’s youth.” – Consequence of Sound “Eksi Ekso has caught my eye in delivering one of the most striking albums of the year… the sheer rush of clashing emotions conveyed is one of remarkable awe…” –Obscure Sound “the local chamber-rocking group is one of the city’s more adventurous indie bands” – The Phoenix (Boston) "Addition by subtraction" is a cliche often quoted by the unoriginal (as well as the mathematically-impaired) that nonetheless offers a fair assessment of Eksi Ekso-- a band that has gone from six to three full-time members and still somehow expanded its sound by refining it. When writing began for the follow-up to 2008's I Am Your Bastard Wings, the three current members of Eksi Ekso: Tom Korkidis (vocals, guitar, bass, keys), Alex Mihm (drums, loops, percussion), and Sean Will (keys, synths, trumpet, samples), found themselves increasingly constrained by the inertia of a large band seemingly doomed
