Landlady: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Oct. 6, 2017, Bob Boilen Landlady s music is more than sonic exploration, it s an adventure. The Brooklynbased band s songs are the initial creation of leader Adam Schatz, who observes the world with fresh, almost alien eyes. The songs can feel a bit druggedout a bit high and full of curiosity but never overly intoxicated or outoftouch. The opening track for Landlady s Tiny Desk performance, Cadaver, has its origins in a friend of Schatz s who went to medical school, and the years she spent examining a single cadaver over and over and even more specifically about a tattoo on that cadaver s buttocks. Landlady is also a band of brilliant musicians who carefully craft their playing to serve the songs. Each player on their own might seem to be making quirky sounds or playing odd rhythms, but together they create headturning tunes. For their Tiny Desk Concert they came in as a foursome but also recruited the Washington D. C. string quartet, Rogue Collective to fleshout their sound on the third so