[photo by Maryanne Ventrice – courtesy of QRO Magazine]
Amanda X released one of my favorite albums of 2014, Amnesia. Its an album of straightforward gazey-dreamy guitar rock with influences as wide as 80’s Bostonians Salem 66, 90’s Northwesterners Sleater-Kinney, and the aughts Brooklynites Vivian Girls. The band has received quite a bit of positive press in their hometown Philadelphia, but it was a local booking by Edan at Death By Audio that put them on my radar. When they accepted our very early CMJ invite, we were delighted to see that word got out quickly and Amanda X ended up playing a bunch of shows that week. For our show, we placed them right smack in the middle of the nine bands, late enough in the day to draw a pretty decent crowd. And draw they did. Amanda X’s set was short but sweet and the fans in the room were quick to see what the excitement is all about. Back home now, the band earlier this week played a nice high-profile gig opening for Parkay Quarts at Philly MOCA.
Acidjack recorded this show in the exact same manner as the previous sets from this show (Schoeps Onstage + SBD) and the sound quality is equally superb. Enjoy!
Stream “Parsnip”:
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Amanda X
2014-10-23
NYCTaper CMJ Day Party
Cake Shop
New York, NY
Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + On Stage Audience Matrix
Schoeps MK4V (stage lip) > KC5 > CMC6 + Soundboard (engineer: Clint) > Edirol R-44 [OCM] > 2x24bit/48kHz WAV > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)
Recorded by acidjack
Produced by nyctaper
Setlist:
[Total Time 21:20]
01 Paranoia
02 [banter – talk]
03 Nothing Wild
04 Things Fall Apart
05 Parsnip
06 [banter – guitar]
07 Juniper
08 Guatemala
If you download this recording from NYCTaper we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Amanda X, visit their Facebook page, and purchase Amnesia from their Bandcamp page [HERE].
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