Preview: Drink Up Buttercup @ Piano’s on 3/12

Drink Up Buttercup, then sweat it out.

Drink Up Buttercup is playing Piano’s this Friday, and I think that’s pretty exciting. I miss the kind of music you can put on your headphones and sweat out a cup of coffee to. It reminds me of being in college, walking no less than top speed to campus with 20lbs of textbooks on my back, driven by Hamilton Leithauser’s (The Walkmen) potency and the firm belief that life was going to be effing amazing. You know? Arcade Fire’s Funeral came out that year too, and the ethereal energy buzz was so fresh.

Now, over five years later, this buzz comes back full force whilst listening to Drink Up  Buttercup. But there’s something a little more raw and less emotional about them. Mark of the  times, perhaps. Born and Thrown on a Hook, it turns out, is the perfect soundtrack to where  this year is going. The angst is still palpable, but look at us– we’re celebrating it! We’re buying  cheap beer gladly, lighting bonfires in trash barrels, dancing around them like madmen. Ok, maybe not. But there’s that sense of irreverence and levity, and it’s in the sound  of this album. Check it out. Better than that, traipse over to Piano’s this Friday and get yourself  some sonic temerity courtesy of Drink Up Buttercup.