Today’s
Festival Bands, Man! band is Low Litas, a native all-female trio playing the Easter Island Festival (April 11-13, 2013) outside Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Started by Mandii Larsen—who put out the band’s only recording to date in 2008—Low
Litas’ song-writing is very straight forward and based on simple observations,
but the way it’s woven musically makes it less precious, like silken armor.
In “No Good For You,” Larsen reads the phrase, “I’m no good for you,” again and again, and we start to think it’s her. But by the end of the song (and the album), we learn the reason she’s no good for you is because she’s “too good for you.”
In “No Good For You,” Larsen reads the phrase, “I’m no good for you,” again and again, and we start to think it’s her. But by the end of the song (and the album), we learn the reason she’s no good for you is because she’s “too good for you.”
In a
world where girls and women are not treated equal to boys and men—where many
girls are raised by a reward system that skews their self-worth (sometimes irreparably
so)—the phrase “I’m too good for you” is practically a warrior truth or stotra.
Something every girl should utter at least once in her life (not that she'll
want to).
On the track “You Want Me,” Larse tells a friend who can’t let go of “him,” “Girl, you’re a sucker now…you’ll give up everything, you know you’ll miss out.” This comes in the middle of a nearly entirely instrumental track that begins with the kind of grounded musical excitement many songs can only close with. Throughout the whole EP, the samples are interesting, the composition is very pretty (but dark and heavy in a basement-princess way), and the lyrics are pencil poems.
On the track “You Want Me,” Larse tells a friend who can’t let go of “him,” “Girl, you’re a sucker now…you’ll give up everything, you know you’ll miss out.” This comes in the middle of a nearly entirely instrumental track that begins with the kind of grounded musical excitement many songs can only close with. Throughout the whole EP, the samples are interesting, the composition is very pretty (but dark and heavy in a basement-princess way), and the lyrics are pencil poems.
Low Litas sounds like Warpaint, Metric, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and other great, psychedelic
“girl bands.” Bitchin'.
DETAILS
Band: Low Litas
Band: Low Litas
Festival: Easter Island Festival, Oklahoma
Venue/Stage: The Clubhouse
Date & Time: Sunday, April 13 2:30PM - 3:15PM
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