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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Afterglow: Margot and the Nuclear So and So's

Well, it turns out that Margot and the Nuclear So and So's still exist. Despite their obnoxious possessive/plural confusion.
I gained news of their renewed livelihood in the unassuming form of a band mate's telling me that our rehearsal was over because the (by now implicitly) previously defunct Margot and the Nuclear So and So's were beginning their set. To me, this offered me little information beyond the fact that it would be possible, within thirty minutes of the aforementioned declaration, to hear some people singing some song about mice in a disjointed, self-consciously artistic fashion. However, after last hearing these heartland neighbors of ours (they're Indianapolisians, precisely) at Pygmalion Music Festival 2007 (after Andrew Bird and Dianogah and before playing hacky-sack with then-Margot trumpeteer Hubert Glover), I was intrigued enough to trade a two precious hours of pre- Wide World of Urbana Community Concert sleep for a chance to listen to a bunch of foreign, mediocre songs from their new album in order to hear "Quiet as a Mouse". However, standing in the Krannert Center lobby amongst a decent throng of flannel-wearing professionals pretending that they had attended the recently-ended U of I production of Benjamin Britten's opera Albert Herring, cliquey café employees intruiged by the all-encompassing freeness of the event, and freshmen pretending that they had been listening to Margot since 2004 even though they had only been listening to Margot since 2008, I realized that I was in fact familiar with a few other tasty Margot favorites, including "Vampires in Blue Dresses" and "Skeleton Key" . After all of this time without really minding the fact that Margot and the Nuclear So and So's may or may not still exist, I can safely say that they do, in fact exist, and that there is a small possibility that their forthcoming album, BUZZARD, may be worth a good solid listen.

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