A late report of Mia Doi Todd at the Echo! About a decade ago folk music was in a place that could be characterized as making country folk cool. Whether it was a slide guitar or a tex-mex backbeat. Now folk music seems to be in a romantic period, with themes shifting from drugs, drinking, and relationships to nature and transcendental thought. Yes, yes, all these themes and instrumentalization are a constant somewhere in folk, but right now folk music is quite romantic, bringing to mind Nick Drake, John Fahey, or any folk musician of the psycho-60's. Mia Doi Todd is a contemporary of Jose Gonzalez and Devendra Banhart, who both focus on themes found in the art songs of traditional romanticism. With a droning harmonium at her feet, the keys being held in place by coins, she played her guitar and sang simple poems about love and nature. Now Mia Doi Todd is an example of this type of transcendental music being awesome. Her opening act, The Dead Flowers, can suck dick, because that is all they were doing last Thursday.
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