LD & the New Criticism
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LD & the New Criticism was an American experimental pop band
formed by songwriter/producer LD Beghtol
. Designed by Beghtol to showcase his less dour songwriting efforts—and to be a highly portable, essentially 'live band,' unlike his other studio-based projects Flare and moth wranglers
—the outfit performed extensively in the New York area, and were a featured band at the 2007 Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Spain. Noted aspects of LD&TNC's live shows were the use of old-fashioned "radio mic'ing" (with the performers clustered around two microphones, in an arc) and their lack of electric bass and drums. The band also contributed the track "Sex Surrogate" to the "ESOPUS 6" invitational CD, "Help Wanted"—along with Devendra Banhart
, Grizzly Bear
, and others.
formed by songwriter/producer LD Beghtol
LD Beghtol
LD Beghtol is an American musician, art director and writer. Beghtol participated in The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs recordings and live shows. Beghtol is a founding member of the band Flare—aka Flare Acoustic Arts League—and the death-pop outfit LD & the New Criticism, and was also in the...
. Designed by Beghtol to showcase his less dour songwriting efforts—and to be a highly portable, essentially 'live band,' unlike his other studio-based projects Flare and moth wranglers
Moth wranglers
Moth Wranglers was a musical collaboration formed in 1998 by Chris Xefos , and LD Beghtol...
—the outfit performed extensively in the New York area, and were a featured band at the 2007 Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Spain. Noted aspects of LD&TNC's live shows were the use of old-fashioned "radio mic'ing" (with the performers clustered around two microphones, in an arc) and their lack of electric bass and drums. The band also contributed the track "Sex Surrogate" to the "ESOPUS 6" invitational CD, "Help Wanted"—along with Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...
, Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear
The grizzly bear , also known as the silvertip bear, the grizzly, or the North American brown bear, is a subspecies of brown bear that generally lives in the uplands of western North America...
, and others.
Discography
- Tragic Realism, full-length CD (Darla, 2006; Acuarela, 2006)
- Amoral Certitudes, seven-song ep (Acuarela, 2007)