Songs to listen to: "What's In It For?," "One Last," "Where's Your Dirty Mind"
I recently saw another band of really young guys at SXSW who I genuinely thought were terrible. In their case, they hid behind being "lo-fi," which really meant that they played boring garbage, are bad at their instruments...but they totally look like a band, so it works. I asked my friend, "What if we hate them because we secretly think that they are 17 and way cooler than us?" He reassured me that "No," although they were quite possibly cooler than us, and absolutely cooler than we were in high school, they were just bad. So, when I first heard about "how young" Avi Buffalo were, I had similar feelings.
Fortunately, age is not a problem for Avi Buffalo, and maybe even an advantage. They write good songs, and their lyrics are perfectly reflective of being just a little bit younger, making for pleasantly nostalgic stuff. Lyrics like "Jessica, why do you always make it so hard. You know I'm kidding, but sometimes I feel like you're all I've got," hits on how big everything used to feel, a feeling, I must admit, that was quite spectacular. In the song "What's In It For" they sing the line; "You are tiny, and your lips are like little pieces of bacon," which, hate as much as you want, is kind of amazing. Avi's vocals are layered and thick, his lyrics are simple but the arrangements are complex, making for perfectly inviting music.
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