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I made a delightfully drunk and delirious post about my new favorite band after the show Saturday, and I just wanted to reiterate:

This girl, Chloe, plays the drums with strength, precision, originality, and joy. I was entertained out of my mind watching this girl play and interact with her sister. I’ve been involved with serious drummers in all sorts of contexts and she’s definitely not “good for a girl” or “good for her age”, but one of the most badass rock drummers I’ve ever watched (Granted, perhaps not the subtlest. But that just makes it so much cooler!). Maybe the preteen girl thing clouded my judgement a little but I think this girl will be making some serious noise five years from now (when she’s 18!). Her sister is great too, but should seriously consider expanding her musical vocabulary… apparently she’s self-taught on keyboard and has no desire to learn to read music. What they’re doing now is great but if they want to become a serious musical force (for which they clearly have the talent) she needs to expand her songcraft a bit.

She has genuine rockstar pipes too… her vocals sailed over the top of their muscular playing ala Neko Case from New Pornographers and in generally their sound was fantastically balanced and full. Regardless of what these girls do in the future they are obviously having a blast performing their music right now. I checked out some videos online and they have definitely gotten stronger and tighter over the past year.  Hopefully their parents are taking good care of them!