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They're a Ukrainian band that does contemporary folk music, but their style encompasses more than that. They all sing and play muliple instruments from everywhere. They play accordion, drums, piano, a cello/double bass hybrid, harmonica, ukulele, djembe, didgeridoo, rainstick, frame drum, Jew's harp... They sing (including in falsetto), throat-sing, rap, ululate, make animal noises and create Western European polyphonies. It sounds dry and pretentious when I talk about it but it's really accessible (I think) and enjoyable. I was told they're easier to get into when you actually see them perform (they're 99% acoustic). Their latest album is definitely easier to get into for the uninitiated as it's their softest (earlier albums have more high pitched polyphonies that scare away my relatives).

HHMMM YES THIS PIQUES MY PRETENTIOUS MUSIC MAJOR INTEREST

I'm not one to judge for odd music tastes - Caravan Palace is my current weakness.

French electro swing.

At 3:25 a stage hand makes an amazing superhero appearance

THey're French but not French-Canadian, so I guess that makes this inherently good.

All of my new gun stuff has arrived in less than a week (or I picked it up from the store) and I have glanced that alien emotion known as content.

Caravan Palace is french? News to me.

I really like their music video with the animated upstanding members of society in a strip club. Really a lot of their music videos are really good. Also I like electro swing a lot

My local King Soopuers had 12 packs of Pepsi Fire, and I didn't know, until yesterday.

I knelt and raise my hands up in the air in a holy fashion, and brought one home immediately.
Yes, I had to carry a 12 pack of soda on a half-hour walk home.
BUT IT WAS FUCKING WORTH IT.

Moving at the end of August! Hype!
Leaving behind the scorched hellscape that is Dallas, Texas and relocating to a comfortably cool climate with thin air - Denver, CO!

an early farewell to my fellow Texas forumites - I'm sure you completely mad people love this state but I come from the land of the ice and snow that'd be the northeast USA, not Scandinavia. or really just anywhere that isn't Texas, according to people in Texas and I MISS THE ICE AND SNOW and air that you can breath and living somewhere that you can go outside and not want to immediate die/take a shower. And also the gorgeous goddamn mountains and parks and lakes and <3

Upon moving I'll have lived here in Dallas for exactly 11 months. I couldn't last a full year of Texas weather. I'm basically a frost giant.

I never lived in the land of Ice and Snow, but my stats were rolled to be advantageous in cold climates and disadvantaged in warm climates.

Is it too late to get into weird European music? I've been jamming to Gogol Bordello ever since I borrowed one of my sis' Warped Tour albums back in middle school.

i am very jealous of your escape from the hellscape of texas. we're trying to go either to denver or seattle and it cannot come soon enough oh my god i hate this state so much

Can't speak to the costs of Denver, but as a heads up, the closer you are to Seattle, the more expensive everything is. Like, 1500 a month for a one-bed apartment expensive.

Denver's housing is more than what i currently have here in Dallas, but still within my affordability range. Gonna be roommates with my bff, so that's cool.

but Seattle is expensive as FUCK. My oldest sister and her husband lived there for 2 years and the 2 bedroom apartment they had (they also had a nursery because they had a baby while there) was paid for by my brother in law's job (he was there as a temporary posting to train a new branch's staff), otherwise it would have been impossible for them to afford it. Mind you they were IN Seattle, a nice part of Seattle. It's cheaper if you "live in Seattle" the same way that people "live in Dallas" but actually live in Coppell or "live in Austin" but actually live in Kyle, or "live in Houston" but actually live in Jersey Village. a 30-45 minute commute more than justifies rent being $900 cheaper.

yeah no we plan on living outside of seattle. like, in the country. so cost of living isn't as much of a concern tbh. same with denver. or like, anywhere. wherever we go we're living in the country. where else am i going to put 60 rabbits and billion snakes

Speaking of everyone moving, I'm likely to be moving to Lexington, KY by December. Isn't too far of a move for me, but I'm nervous about it because it's my first move aside from when I went to college for a few months.