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Thursday, August 7 Photo Review: Eef Barzelay
Eef Barzelay:
Towne Lounge, 8/1/08
A brief, rather cryptic statement on Clem Snide's website back in October declared in part: "Clem Snide is Eef Barzelay beginning now...Burrow into the future with Eef Barzelay...R.I.P. Clem Snide." So it was that Clem Snide, the band whose brilliance over the course of five full-lengths only brought them to the cusp of "something bigger" (as well as the theme song for one season of the long-departed NBC series Ed), was apparently no more.
Sad news, to be sure, for those lucky enough to have been fans of the band, but exciting to hear that frontman Eef Barzelay would be soldiering on with new music. Several long months later, Lose Big, Barzelay's second official solo album, was released in the U.S. on 429 and it didn't disappoint. Self-deprication, the rapture, and hipster males are all subjects covered with the usual Barzelay wit on an album that has been inexplicably flying under the radar all summer long. Currently touring with a new band made up of members of Nashville's Ole Mossy Face, an uncharacteristically dressed down Barzelay delivered a solid set last weekend at Towne Lounge, heavy on the new stuff, but an old Clem Snide favorite or two included in the mix.
View the entire set here or here.
Video: Watch the new video for the title track to Barzelay's Lose Big
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