Artist description LaMonte Young became Velvet Underground became Stereolab becomes SOUND team.

Music Style Psychedelic, Rock n Roll, Rock, Post-Rock, Post-Music

Musical Influences Os Mutantes, Neil Young, Spacemen3, Velvet Underground, Chuck Berry, Soft Boys

Similar Artists Flaming Lips, stereolab, elephant 6, olivia tremor control, spacemen 3, radiohead, beachwood sparks

Artist History We are history.

Group Members Bill Baird Matt Oliver

Instruments analog + wurlitzer + martind28 + lowrey organ + much heart +much uppers + texas sun + bobwills + turntables + 3 typesof moogs + modulationsepiphone sg bass, martin d-28, shaker, 1959 gibson lapsteel, yelps, salt shaker, moog rogue, moog prodigy, micromoog, lowrey organ

Press Reviews splendid e-zine: "The Sound Team get the best compliment I can give to an obscure group: when friends come over, I put their CD on and proudly claim I'm in the band. These fellas from Austin have produced one of the coolest, funniest and most relaxed recordings you are likely to hear. Parts of every song seem to catch them at unscripted moments of wild imagination... The band seems, for me at least, like characters from an early Richard Linklater film. You want them all to be your friends, and to play at your party; you wouldn't even mind it if they archived all their beer piss in the Guadalupe River... Overall, their most coverable material puts them in the same boat as the many Elephant 6 bands who are so enamored with folk music, but I think I like the Sound Team more. I say this because their music, at this juncture, is far less refined. They refuse to leave out any of their ideas... so you end up with a band you can't pin down to any genre or movement. They are delightfully amateurish, willing to appropriate any melody or lyric worth stealing, but even more delightfully gifted. Their own compositions sound so fresh, laid back and pleasant that you get the impression of an Austin band who could live more for the horses, the country and the belly laughs than for those depressing clubs where so few midgets hang out. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- demorama.com THINGS THIS BAND DOES THAT MAKE ME ECSTATIC WITH LOVE: -Quoting Williams from "Enter the Dragon" -Rhyming "male slut" with "beer gut" -Gratuitous Moogs. I don't know why. They just amuse me. -Acoustic guitars strummed over a hip-hop/Funkadelic '71 beat. -Sounding, at points, like the Stones in their circa-Stickyfingers country phase -Raunchy fuckin' harmonica -Really really swanky slide guitar -Lyric: "I guess my life is over so I'd best be gettin' to hell" -A really damned awesome Donovan-style cover of "Pure Imagination" from "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" -Posting a contest on their website encouraging visitors and fans to "produce a song either about or reminiscent of Miami Vice" (is Elastica eligible?). -Sounding 'rough around the edges' enough to give off that 'superundergroundindieDIY' vibe, but not enough to distract from the fact that they sound truly inspired CONCLUSION: ...Sound Team rocks the town like a moldy crouton. Contender for my favorite demo of the year. Maybe my favorite since I started writing. Definitely in my Top 3. God bless you guys. (Nate Patrin) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- bangsheet.com: "SOUND team my ass! These guys are something altogether different... but who knows what that is! Quite frankly, I’m stumped. Don’t know what to make of these cats. It’s sort of Beck-ish, but not so pop oriented. It’s like some crack-crazed hillbillies were let loose with some recording equipment, samplers and such, and got all moonshined up to fuck around with the songs they’d always played while sittin’ on the porch. No, that isn’t it. Not at all. See what I’m saying here, I don’t have the slightest idea about what this thing is. It’s filled with funky little snippets of this, that, and the kitchen sink being torn out and tossed onto the hood of and old Chevy pick-up. There’s songs buried under noises, distorted yelps and comments. And it seems to me that they do the majority of their work on acoustic guitars. Like a really, really, really fucked up blues take... (Are they) visionaries? or nitwits?... I can’t pin ‘em down this time, and I’m all broke up and shit about that. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- earpollution.com: "The sounds that Sound Team's Matt and Bill have created are some of the funniest, liveliest, most genuinely honest stuff I've heard in some time... When the mopey sounds of your indie-rock collection become overwhelming, and the chugga-chugga warp drive of your metal albums become a bit embarrassing, Sound Team delivers a welcome reprieve. Sit back on the deck, pop open a cold can of Rainier, crack a crooked smile at the old neighbor lady next door, and let Sound Team represent all your goofy awkwardness for you. "

Location Austin, TX - USA

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