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| When people want to know what a band sounds like, they always want to hear them described in terms of other bands. (You may have noticed that Rolling Stone often describes bands as sounding like somebody, "but on acid.") In Tarpit's case, I guess that you could say that they sound sort of like PJ Harvey, but that wouldn't really do them justice. Their sound is slightly different from the estrogen-angst-rock of PJ, Kristen Hersh et.al. I will admit that they are harder-edged grungy rock with (mostly) female lead vocals, however, they tend to lean more towards traditional '90s hard rock (a la Nirvana) than their more angry man-hating (or at least chronically man-displeased) cousins. They play a few songs with a guest violinist which are unlike almost any other band out there. They don't tone down the rock, but the violin adds an oddly ethereal touch to the pounding rhythm and powerful guitars. The music is loud and aggressive, but still very danceable. They are in the process of recording a new CD right now, and word is that Chicago-area producer and rock-god Steve Albini is handling the production. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were all over Q101 and on the Billboard charts in six months to a year. Guitarist Tiffany Seybert, bassist Ed Seybert, guitar/vocals Chris LeSeur and drummer Peter Meyer got together to form Tarpit in August 1991. Their releases include two cassettes, Tarpit (1992) and Lydian (1993), and four songs on the Crank Records CD compilation Ultramodern Offspring (1994).
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