[mp3] Slide down! Fall down!

The Moves - "T. Knee" (mp3)

A few years after the last time I heard anything about The Moves, I saw bandmember Sara Cooper (all three of them traded off instruments and songwriting) working at a local coffeeshop. She looked annoyed with the world, and I wasn't sure my enthusiasm for the band had decreased to the point of not being irritating, so I didn't say anything. A few months later I saw her there again, but she was smiling and singing along with my favorite Joni Mitchell album, so I said hi and enthused for a minute.

I think Cooper is the one singing here; she has a complex and interesting voice. Last year she did a solo set of morbid fairy-tale acoustic drone songs-- better than it sounds-- for which I guess her voice was more appropriate, but her ability to do "gleeful" and "ambivalent" at the same time made The Moves occasionally, briefly, amazing.

[This is from the Magneto Single-Fire 7", which, like their one album, came out in 2000 and is now out of print with the demise of Mr. Lady Records. That album regularly goes for five bucks on Amazon.]