Tayisha Busay is the sort of outfit that makes you want to
dream up crazy subgenres all day.Nu Hyphy?Cheese-glam?Spandexcore?Pizzatronica?Houserobics?Ass Wave?Check out their album cover and you'll
see three artists who have carved out a pretty crazy niche.Kegs, kones, kicks; rainbows,
ringtones, rim-jobs; hotdogs, hamburgers, hoagies; and dance, dance, dance!Their EP Shock-Woo! serves up "Trenta"-sized helpings of clubby beats and
sing-along absurdity designed to get the party started.
"Tonite" could well be the group's theme song (though "WTF
you doin' in my mouth?" is a close second), a trim ‘80s club ditty that's
tighter than an aerobics instructor's ass.A pulsating synth bobs and weaves over an electronic beat
while TB revels in the redemptive thrills of the club scene."Soul Power" brings it on back to the
‘70s with disco progressions and diva diatribes.Brandon LA LA Vek busts out the old skool raps, rhyming
"absurd" with "turd".The vocals
are mostly delivered in a party-approved call-and-response style that invites
more mayhem and happy havoc than the back of the school bus.The mix towards the end "French Song
(Nite Club Remix)" sounds like a spoof of your favorite goofy Euro-trash club
hit: all breakdowns and breathy come-ons.
Tayisha Busay is a connoisseur of excess: ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s,
whatever.They've raided
everyone's ‘What-Was-I-Thinking?!’ photo album and assembled the bad haircuts,
sparkles, and bellbottoms into Shock-Woo!.The average North Dakotan farmhand is
probably not going to ‘feel’ the rainbow unicorn aesthetic (the only party that
TB doesn't rock is the Tea Party).In fact, he'll probably dissect the band name for signs of the
apocalypse (Tayisha Busay = Yay Ass Bituh, I Say Buy Hats, Busy Shit Yaaa, USA
Is Ya Hat B, Thus I Say Aba, I Say U Say Butah).Happily the tripped-out trio calls Brooklyn "Home, Sweet
Home", not the heartland.The
borough, always in danger of taking its indie too seriously, should welcome
this ass-shakin' antidote to pretension.Now let's dance!
Click here for photos of Tayisha Busay at 2011 Northside Festival in Brooklyn, NY in the QRO Concert Photo Gallery
Tayisha Busay is the sort of outfit that makes you want to
dream up crazy subgenres all day.
Fueled with Voodoo Doughnuts, Alcoholic Faith Mission
delivered to a rockin' crowd in Portland.
Those lucky enough to
enter the House of Blues Boston took a spacey journey
that felt like one long dream starting with opening act I Break Horses.
The student-filled O2 Academy in Manchester started heaving
forward the instant the visual art showed "The Cribs" on the backdrop.
