"Did I Let You Know" rides a slight tropical rhythm, a trick maybe borrowed from Vampire Weekend or one of its more toothless peers, bands that in the past five years have reframed the idea of what it means to be a funk-aware rock band, engaged but not visceral.
But as with The National's peers - bands like American Music Club and the Tindersticks, or going back a little further, Godfather Of Gloom Leonard Cohen - there's much evidence here on Boxer, that the glass-half-empty take on life can produce some pretty special music.
Although it had peers in bands like Television and the early Talking Heads, no group blended noise and lyricism to such startling effect.
The algorithm used in DERIV to generate the N classifiers, one for each band for known peer brands and subsequently to generate perception measure with test storylines score from the band classifiers are described in this section.
While TVOTR's music was far more eclectic than a lot of their revivalist peers, the band will always be linked with the indie rock scene that formed in Brooklyn in the wake of 9/11.
As musically innovative as any of their peers, the band rejected many of the labels applied to them, and in many ways their more cartoonish elements were inherited from the theatrics of Marley Marl and Biz Markie.
Regardless of whether or not you seek professional peers, a band of brothers, a gang of rabble-rousers, a sisterhood, a press of soldiers, or even a pizza team of compatriots, you must trust the team.
Spawned from the dark, angry, alternative metal wave that swept the Los Angeles club scene in the mid-'90s, Coal Chamber (which co-headlines the Hollywood Palladium on Wednesday with Type O Negative) and its peers--bands such as Korn, System of a Down and Limp Bizkit--have established rock's new path as one that's urgent and aggressive.
In this way, My Morning Jacket's peers also include bands like Beck, Radiohead, and the Flaming Lips.
(Anderson) The Shins (Sunday and Monday) For his fourth album with these indie-rock darlings, the frontman James Mercer assembled a small army of peers from other bands (Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney, Fruit Bats) and pared down to absolutely straightforward narratives and power-pop eagerness.
