Oberhofer 'Away From You' Live

You may remember me banging on about Brooklyn's Oberhofer back in January. I described this tune with the following words: 'brash garage sounds akin to Girls, rather ostentatious (but irresistible) whistling and their compression under a sheen of summery haziness combine to make these guys sound like Jonathan Pierce & co. (The Drums), but beef-ified and lo-fi-ified.'

Well, those may have been pretty silly words. But to sum up, they're true talent. I just got e-mailed this, a session for NY website Breakthru Radio, and it really encapsulates the band's power and charisma whilst playing live. Check out that infernal might @ 1.20 onwards.

Here are some studio scraps, including a good observation from the lead singer that he himself resembles Nick Jonas! It's true!

Introducing... Oberhofer

Brooklyn’s Oberhofer make music most apt for the slowly maturing, jilted generation of indie kids whose first favourite band was The Drums. Brash garage sounds akin to Girls, rather ostentatious (but irresistible) whistling and their compression under a sheen of summery haziness combine to make these guys sound like Jonathan Pierce & co., but beef-ified and lo-fi-ified.

The band is soon to support hotly-tipped The Vaccines at their Brooklyn gig. Surely being a band tipped by probably the most talked about UK upstarts around makes you, like, super-tipped? I’d hope so. They’ve certainly got the tunes anyway.

Originally published @ Sucking Lemons. Check out a couple of free Oberhofer downloads there too.