The world of Brooklyn four-piece Beeer is governed by stories of aging pets, nervous love, and old-fashioned mischief. Led by Ben Biber, the band’s debut album, “Dynamite”, braids strands of country, folk, and rock into eight brilliant songs traversing the raucous, the restrained, and all else in-between.
Some Sunday night just over a year ago, I slipped a note beneath a metal door in a corridor of many such doors which read something along the lines of “you guys rock”. Coming from beyond that door was the powerful sound of halfway up a jagged hill. The Brooklyn two-piece, composed of guitarist and vocalist Devin Gilbert and drummer Jeb Polstein, sounds as if they’ve played music together forever. And that’s because they have.
Imperial Motors is a Brooklyn four-piece band playing hopped-up prog-synth-punk as a thesis for the future. I spoke with bassist and co-lead vocalist Liam O’Toole about musical beginnings, group dynamics, and Russia. Listen to the recently released “Charlie Don’t Surf” EP here.
