Swing swing swing swing swing\u2026 I’m running around like an
\nidiot right now, and no one is here to see me. \ud83d\ude42 Where are you all
\nwhen I am seriously embarrassing myself?!<\/p>\n
Indigo Swing is a band I have been into since before they had a
\nrecord deal, back when I was in high school and my friend at the CD
\nplace in Greenbrae, California gave me a copy of their demo tape. I
\nwore that damn thing thin. Then, in 1998, when I lived in Seattle,
\nthey came to play, and I ran out to get their newest CD (this
\none\u2026 now they have a new release called
\nRed Light!<\/i>). I went to the concert\/dance, had my first swing
\ndance experience, and was fairly blown away. Indigo Swing is,
\nwithout a doubt, my favorite swing band. Brian Setzer? Big Bad
\nVoodoo Daddy? Wimpy wannabes.<\/p>\n
\nAll Aboard!<\/i> starts off with a kicking,
\nmake-you-jump-out-of-your-chair-and-scream number called “The
\nIndigo Swing” (this isn’t even their first album and they are
\nputting songs about themselves on it. Wow). “Check your hat at the
\ndoor \/ And move on out to the floor \/ ‘Cause you know what to do \/
\nMan, the drums are callin’ you \/ Take your girl by the hand \/ And
\nmove on up to the band \/ You can hear the boys sing \/ ‘The Indigo
\nSwing’.” No joke, people, if I had a hat, I would have left it at
\nthe door about two seconds into this song and gone off to swing
\ndance with my invisible partner around the apartment. Wait, I did
\nthat already. Oops.<\/p>\n
The next track, “(Today’s The Day) I’m Glad I’m Not Dead,” has a
\npretty damn weird title for a song about a guy who has finally met
\nthe girl of his dreams. The refrain, in which Johnny Boyd sings,
\n“Oh, I declare today’s not like the other days \/ Livin’ life in the
\nsame old forgetful ways \/ Spin the wheel and you see how your
\nnumber plays \/ Comin’ ’round to me” is charming and uplifting, and
\nmakes me want to dance (although it’s not nearly as jumpy and jivey
\nas the first track).<\/p>\n
The songs on this album are universally tight and awesome, even
\nthe track “Baron Plays The Horses,” which is mostly spoken, and the
\ninstrumental “Hot In Harlem.” It would probably be boring if I went
\nover all the tracks individually; instead, I’ll talk about the only
\ntrack I don’t really like: “Violent Love.”<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s the lyrics that bother me: “I want to make violent
\nlove \/ To you ‘neath the moon above \/ I want to make violent love \/
\nTo you.” Maybe it’s the fact that even disregarding these lyrics
\n(which are pretty scary, if you ask me), the song is sort of boring
\nand generic. Either way, they could have done well leaving this
\nsong off the CD. I have fast-forwarded through it almost every time
\nI have listened to it, it’s that bad. And I like this bad.<\/p>\n
As a swing group, Indigo Swing is tight. They work really well
\ntogether, with an intricate ability to weave improvisations tightly
\nbetween instruments. They are masters of the craft; they obviously
\nlive the swing style. All songs on this album (well, all but one)
\neffervesce with romantic spirit and sensibility; listening to this
\nalbum simply makes me happy to be alive\u2026 and able to
\ndance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":25176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6197],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-36381","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-indigo-swing","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36381"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36381"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}