Ted Leo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Dec. 4, 2017, Daoud TylerAmeen The Ted Leo who showed up to perform at our office this fall was no stranger to NPR Music; in fact, he d stood on that very spot a few years earlier, trading verses with Aimee Mann in their collaborative project The Both. But he did seem like a changed man. In the seven years since his last solo album, Leo had been steadily reevaluating his relationship with performance, the business of music and even his own voice. Over the applause that followed his opening number, the bonerattling slow burn Moon Out of Phase, he smiled and explained the song was perhaps a little heavy for noon but, practically speaking, it helps me get the cobwebs How you listen to Leo depends on when his work came into your life. If you re a backintheday type you might rep for Chisel, his 90s punk outfit born on the Notre Dame campus and bred in Washington, D. C. If you re just tuning in, you may have witnessed his understated comedy chops in arenas like The Best Show on WFMU and a high
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