| Band Profile: The Perfekts |
| Friday, 03 September 2010 04:37 | |||
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The Perfekts By: Patrick Pawlowski Tucked away in one of the seventy studios peopling the venerated Music Building in Manhattan is the poorly lit home of The Perfekts. Here is where they add to the madness of sounds that have slowly been collecting and pouring out of doors ajar for years. Even the stairwells—with their tattooed and sacrosanct walls of purple penises and almost amorphous pink and brown canals, various rock-and-roll insignia and garish tile-and-mirror adornments, the Sharpie’d signatures of idols sharing the same space as the signatures of musical parvenus-to-be, both written in the same indistinguishable cursive—sing. Where the likes of The Strokes, Interpol and Madonna (whose signature sits behind a plexi-glass covering) cut their teeth and tuned their guitars now The Perfekts do much the same. Influenced by such bands as Cheap Trick, Jellyfish, and All Time Low, The Perfekts seek to set the familiar lyrical theme of “love, or lack thereof” against their own music, which Pete and Andreas describe as “succinct”; this is no surprise, considering Pete and Andreas’ protracted journey to assemblage. Their process is heavily dependent on communication and collective creation, like joints and locks on a moving line waiting to be popped together so that one day those joints and locks can make sweet pop-rock melodies together. With parts and fractions of songs and chords contributed from the other band members and their crafty producer and collaborator David Tannenbaum, also an experienced musician, the desire to streamline the whole process by removing contaminants like ineffectual band members and introducing new ones until the right chord is struck, even if that takes forever, is understandable and standard. Friends and collaborators for almost a decade, it has taken Pete and Andreas the entirety of their relationship to find just two other kindred performers of their level of musicianship to complete their band. Enter Mike and Matty, the forerunners for the creation of The Perfekts, the missing ingredients.
The journey to assemblage has taken them through the requisite phases of aggressive experimentation with nine-minute instrumental tracks which has predisposed them to the aforementioned succinctness of song and spirit, an Orwellian approach to creation that sees them burning through catchy tracks for their forthcoming album. Now that they have the means for prodigious creation, no longer a ragtag duo of showmen like Hall and Oates, shopping their acoustic and artful wares around coffee shops and bars, but a genuine group of artists striving for stardom and, plainly, perfection, they are invigorated as never before. They blend their brand of music with their bardic embellishments—each song is like a short story, hitting the crests and troughs and lifting the veil on the denouement, blending contemporary creation and sound with traditional ideas and style, their panache is sure to storm the bleachers and kick the rest of the ho hum chorus line to the curb. The next stop on their journey is in fact the beginning of another journey: they are trying to kick-start a tour across the States. You can catch The Perfekts live at Connelly’s Klub 45 on Saturday, September 18th at 10pm. You can also stay up to date with them through their Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or their producer and booking agent,
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.. Check out Patrick’s blog, The Paper Drumhead.
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