From the gray city of Seattle rises the torch that is Das Llamas. The four piece, whose influences range from dance to goth to punk to dub, have created a platypus of sound that is a new noise in a new era.
Kerry Zettel's wild-throated melodies loom over a landscape of guitars and synthesizers ardently sewn together by Shawn Kock and Aaron Everett. Thomas Burke's spastic percussion erupts against conspiring steadfast bass lines that create a grimy upbeat electro rock that drunkenly flirts with no-wave punk. Well studied in the use of multitasking, they do all the work of a five piece with a dynamic demeanor of six.
Das Llamas has moved heads and feet alike at numerous shows up and down the west coast, toured across the midwest to the east coast and back. They have recorded and released two eps and have a full length out now on Aviation Records.
Words on Das Llamas:
“Das Llamas blew me away. There are few bands I’m more excited about in town than this one… There is a hard, dark sound that reminds me at times of Joy Division or Interpol, if Interpol had balls.”
- John Richards, John in the Morning / KEXP
“Das Llamas have gone from merely likable to truly exciting”
- Eric Grandy, The Stranger
“When a band can all play the holy fuck out of their respective instruments, receive this much good press, get so many choice bookings, and garner as much adoration from the ladies as the boys in Das Llamas, you'd expect other bands to twinge with just a smidgen of jealousy.”
- Seattle Weekly
www.myspace.com/dasllamas
PRESS
All Music Blog - 09/07
Seattle Times Blog - 09/07
Willamette Week - 09/07
Three Imaginary Girls - 08/07
West Coast Performer - 07/07
Redefine Magazine - 05/07
The Stranger - 05/07
