Anna Meredith: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

[@CameronWPayne]

I’m here because of The Bluecoats and I do not regret it.

[@susaninman8979]

I’m in my 70th year - this is the most exciting music I have heard from young musicians in along time - thank you.

[@benwilliams5760]

Not to come across as patronising but I salute both of you! Go see her...she's amazing live!

[@jamesmcdaniel8213]

I'm 74 and agree with you.

[@MarquisVonLion]

Same here, I'm 71 :>)

[@rphrph167]

I have watched most of there performances online but I find this one particularly good.....love the excitement and building crescendo’s.....sorry but I’m only 57.....

[@robhamblin4008]

Have you watched/listened to 5 telegrams? BBC proms. That blew my mind.

[@Moonhumming]

Every person in this band looks like they were picked from other bands at random and all decided to play together

[@rimbaud0000]

Immense comment 🙂

[@user-sj2vn1jq4c]

Hahaha so true

[@kildogery]

Pretty much true, tbf.

[@moritz471]

I saw a tuba and knew it was going to be good.

[@liamdienemann8937]

Just got picked up hitchhiking by one of the member's dad. What an absolutely lovely man 👍🏼

[@anythinginvolvingsharks]

ACTIVATE THE DRUMMER!!!!

[@21LASCIVIOUS1986]

attackshark 3:37 😂♥️

[@danalawrence4473]

The counterpoints and synchronous lines require superhuman attention. Maddie and Jack in particular have such difficult lines to play. Superb!

[@wolfcreekboys7353]

I don’t know what else was going on but that tuba player was dropping black metal vibes out that tuba.

[@allisondynamite]

It sounds so disjointed until you realize it’s not. Absolutely brilliant. I imagine this is what we hear right when we die and our souls leave our bodies.

[@niconico4138]

now I know what effect I always missed as a guitar player: a tuba player doubling me. Wow!

[@rphuntarchive1]

" But if you know and love the music of Philip Glass, King Crimson or Steve Reich - music that's electrifying, challenging and sonically soars and ripples through your body - then crank this up." Right here, and loving it.

[@martincrumpton3236]

The most exciting music of the last 40 years. The virtuosity is immense and the melodies are intricate and huge. The albums are fabulous; the live performances are even better. What a joy!

[@TheNikNak81]

I'm still here listen to this after a cpl of years. Well done and never gets old xx

[@HiggsMusicOfficial]

Half the time I couldn't tell what time signature they were playing in, but I didn't care. Loved every minute of it.

[@spilledinfinity8652]

be interested to know as well if anyone caught it please post it up.

[@MarkPentler]

There’s some odd 15/8 or something in there I think?

[@eusou0]

From what I could gather the most used time signatures were binary(/quaternary) and ternary with switching/moving accent beats. But I'd have to take notes to be sure

[@eusou0]

@@MarkPentler towards the end of The Vapours, yeah

[@eusou0]

@@MarkPentler followed by 11/8 but I can't tell how it's broken down (7+4 or 6+5 or 9+2 or wtv)

[@paul-beinetti]

These songs fill me with a sense of joy and hope. They are a great soundtrack to my leaf raking.

[@DrVon2]

I was so impressed with the sheer joy Anna seems to have from performing these tracks. Also, of course, impressed with the music and the combination of tuba and cello - I'd just assumed Nautilus was mostly electronic. I will have to watch out for UK concerts so I can see her live !

[@briceharvey7427]

The crazy top she is wearing and the tuba was all I needed to see to want to watch this.

[@m0d01]

Saw them play this live maybe 2 months before this show was taped. 'Exhilirating' is a gross understatement. One of the best and most musical things i've seen performed.

[@j.cbrosy4136]

I literally just found out a out them yesterday and it's now on my bucket list to see in person

[@renekitty2]

That last song was like Incredible Never heard anything like that ever So so good

[@zacharygoode8341]

Recently saw Nautilis played by the SF Symphony Orchestra. Absolutely amazing!!!

[@tannerowen6375]

They all look like they're having so much fun

[@Raquel-Dean]

to be fair, in the description bob did say this music isn't for everyone. get a grip! you hate it move on to the next amazing video produced by NPR. let the weirdos like myself enjoy the change of pace in music style on npr.

[@rphrph167]

Fuck!!!...a year since my last comment and the energy of the performance still gets me!!!

[@pollinseclectic8254]

This is so fresh and exciting, yet with deep sturdy foundations. Brilliant

[@lunaracademy6810]

I am literally obsessed with this nautilus

[@damonki9508]

This goes right with Moon Hooch to the special place in my heart!

[@dmott6717]

I had no idea who Moon Hooch were until your comment and I checked them out and I am absolutely addicted to Number 9 by Moon Hooch. I need that on repeat in my brain for life.

[@jeremysmith9694]

Yessss. I was thinking the exact same thing! Love it.

[@y_y_zed]

I would love to have her score a Mr. Robot episode

[@rolfedrengen]

Spot on!

[@challllrie]

that would have me perish on the spot

[@VeeeeryyyFaaaastSlooooth]

This is like a vegan Slipknot.

[@marcelgrabenbauer6491]

laughed way too much about that one

[@naejsolrac]

lol this is ridiculously accurate

[@ph33d]

I think this is the funniest comment I've ever read on any thread anywhere.

[@jdgonzo1982]

that's a beautiful comment dude...made me choke on my eggs on toast :)

[@wereldkaart]

If you're interested in metal made by vegans check out Napalm Death :p

[@bencolemanart]

"The songs performed here come from her 2016 release called Varmints, which is where two of the three songs performed here can be found." This sentence has me utterly baffled, it's like a zen koan.

[@RickF-dw8cl]

Young women are showing a lot of great musicianship in the last few years. Something special about this generation of young ladies.

[@PLJogging]

She's actually 41 if you can believe it.

[@patrickmaloney6440]

Oh my god... how have I only just found this performance? Goosebumps all the way!

[@jamiebsn5589]

Only one person could ever Premier the BBC Proms and have a Tiny Desk concert.. That person is Anna Meredith (I've got a singed Vinyl of hers when i saw her in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival!)

[@stevendorsey4882]

I love discovering new sounds and approaches to musicality. This was a delight. It was funny how the drummer/percussionist seemed like he was sleeping for the first part of Nautilus and then came awake with a deep, resonating rhythm. Their chemistry is also great. Great stuff! Gotta love Tiny Desk!

[@LordQueezle]

It's like someone put Philip Glass and DaftPunk into a blender. I'm new to Meredith's compositions but I'm liking what I've heard so far.

[@b1merio]

They should rename that first song to Blue Balls cause it kept amping me up with no release lol Anyway, neat; new addition to the long list of musicians Tiny Desk has introduced me to that I have instantly fallen in love with. Also, love keyboard girl's top.

[@rolfedrengen]

When you realize that the release is your own responsibility, blue balls is history!

[@bjfincher773]

Keyboard girl is Anna Meredith... She's the composer, it's her band.

[@dragonburterZ43]

That first track triggered a spiraling panic attack to fall over everyone in the room at the time I played this.

[@reddaB]

Tom Cyphert Ace

[@nightcandle62]

best stuff ive heard in years thats contemporary this is real. this is winter monday mornings school college offices misery

[@nightcandle62]

@@samdoherty2284 cheers

[@Jackwagon]

The remix of my car alarm?

[@ranichiwa]

Wow, amazing. Very much in the vein of King Crimson. Thanks NPR!

[@motorv8N]

Couldn't stop smiling watching their musical abandon and energy. Cool!

[@jw2010dogs]

The first Tiny Desk that truly made my PC headphones seem insufficient. Wow.

[@paolicarinin364]

thank you npr for being amazing

[@rolfedrengen]

This is probably the most wierd music I've ever seen performed live. I.. think.. I get it, but just when I think that I loose.. it..? This performance was very.. uhmm.. strange.. They know what they're doing, but it's so strange.. When music can make me feel like.. a new sensation.. or.. i don't know.. I just.. uhmm... Man, this is FANTASTIC!

[@TheGuyBruv]

It's just odd time signatures and they're not all playing on the same time signatures either. It's the same kind of thing that ledzep would do at times (Except they did it in a way that you wouldn't notice really unless you took time to count out the beats of each musiciain), It's really cool stuff

[@wolfgang4468]

Try Henry Cow (or everything with Fred Frith), Art Bears, Art Zoyd, Etron Fou Leloublanc, Univers Zero and many others ...

[@rolfedrengen]

@@wolfgang4468 I'm not sure I want to

[@rolfedrengen]

@@TheGuyBruv So those polyrythms? It's MUCH easier to just dwell on counting "Serpentire Fire".. it relaxes me :-)

[@Aussie6490_gaming]

I learned of Anna only this week through BBC 6 Music and Sawbones. I have been waiting for music like this all my life. It's like the joy of the complexity of King Crimson but with someone beautiful to look at. I am in love right now.

[@mashedpatoots]

Varmints is certainly my favorite album of 2016. So glad you were able to get Anna to do a tiny desk! She deserves all the praise she gets

[@DonovanPresents]

The instrumentals in these songs were very progressive and reminds me of music created in the seventies. I love it!

[@baptistearnou4877]

I remember an opening of a Daphni (Caribou) DJ Set at the Pitchfork in Paris with that Nautilus song a year and a half. It completely blew my mind. I am so happy to finally find out who was the composer of this great piece of music !

[@suegha]

This is exactly why I love Tiny Desk Concerts!

[@croix93]

How does this have only 254K views? Should be more like 254M

[@ashleysapp1333]

honestly this is the first tiny desk video that I don't vibe with, and I've listened to a large variety for years...didn't think this day would come :( it is what it is. I wish them the best

[@megmedia019]

No puedo describir la cantidad de emociones que me produce The vapours, cuando la escucho prácticamente recuerdo tanto buenos momentos como algunos tristes, en verdad me encanta la canción, muchas gracias.

[@chromaticka]

Every time I see a thumbnail for a group I haven't heard of, I think I can skip it. But no. Don't skip any Tiny Desks! You'll miss something awesome.

[@Gassyyetclassy]

Please allow Khruangbin to play a Tiny Desk! You won't be disappointed!

[@brianharriger217]

O. M. G. The sound... the SOUND!! How did you contain this to the building?! Simply a wonderful and magical experience.

[@adzdahlman9724]

~the best fiveandahalf mins I've seen here* Blinding*

[@canturgan]

If you heard the first tune with no picture you'd swear there were 100 people playing.

[@dh3541]

Best performance ever captured on video. Robert Fripp eat your heart out.

[@cunkmusic8748]

I've been waiting for this for a long time... Stunning...

[@gwillad]

the context switch from nautilus to ribbons is the most jarring thing. That was really amazing. nautilus and the vapours were unlike anything I've ever heard. ribbons reminded me of sufjan stevens.

[@dannyaustin84]

Saw them last night at Brudenell. Flippin incredible!

[@spilledinfinity8652]

this definately came from North of the wall. fantastic stuff. love it!

[@tmbr1262]

If you can't wait for her second album, her new orchestra piece "Five Telegrams" got premiered in London last week, complete with digital projection onto the Royal Albert Hall - kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3-qhaprnc17nbc

[@Zyswest]

absolutely thrilling

[@chrisk6945]

Wow! This was truly something else! Loved seeing them all look like they're having just as much fun as I'm having listening.

[@dae345]

Idk what's happening but I can't stop listening... This is kinda mind blowing.. I think

[@ryomichael]

Opus and DeathTounge are sincerely joyful and proud of their musical descendants.

[@kayday1996]

saw her in concert. the most ADHD performance I have ever seen. It was amazing

[@hannylu555]

The description says exactly how I feel! Thank you NPR Tiny Desk!

[@samnilsson2307]

INITIATING DRUMS ...STANDBY...STANDBY....BEGIN 3-MINUTE BOOTUP SEQUENCE

[@logicsoundinc]

I liked the first tune. (The only one I watched.) its more rhythmically challenging than what's happening in pop music right now. It feels like humans playing instrumental versions of current electric dancehall music. I wouldn't let anyone get away with comparing it to Beethoven, but in its context pretty cool!

[@saradavis3576]

this music just keeps opening up for me. and it's cool to watch the music come out of actual instruments bc sometimes i have no idea what i'm hearing xD also, it seems like she'd be so easy to get along with!! very cool, laid-back confidence... i am totally obsessed

[@fralinartframe7684]

I've been listening for something like this for twenty years... Brilliant! Wonderful!

[@BambosNeophytou]

best performance of Nautilus yet? Certainly my fave so far.

[@voidsabre_]

This is what happens when you go into the band member character creation screen and hit random on every member

[@ownageintheface]

she just pull a clarinet outta nowhere. is that her magic ability?

[@jojolalalala]

Once the drummer woke up it seems this song turned into a mirror version of led zepplin's cashmere (descending run by ochestra at 5.13 mark). take ya cashmere sweater - turn it upside down and inside out, put through a washer drier with some acid wash jeans and you just might get this crazy moment in time and space. I saw an amazing performance of anna's Moon in the Australian bush the other day. I am a fan.

[@wetdognightmare7834]

Really awesome to know that she scored Eighth Grade

[@santilasca]

The absolute FILTH of the opening song (Nautilus) reminds me of how I felt the first time I listened to Dillinger Escape Plan's Calculating Infinity when I was around 16.

[@garlicpepper1334]

Guys help, I think I'm in love with the cellist

[@reddaB]

garlic pepper Same lol

[@SnowUltra]

garlic pepper we can take turns?

[@reddaB]

Richard Fallman ew

[@matthewremus2024]

With the eyes they were making at each other during the performances, I would bet Anna feels the same way

[@JohnMcLaughlin48]

Wow! A genius in action. What a novel band.

[@shawncole7930]

Much different than what I expected from a Tiny Desk Concert. They definitely enjoy themselves.

[@user-sj2vn1jq4c]

Expect the unexpected

[@adzdahlman9724]

You guys smashed it on this track - 20+ listens ; funking love it. Neighbours... mmmmmm..... getting educated - prob enjoying ha ha* They look a bit confused.

[@TheKevin77a]

that was high energy and super enjoyable. Thanks NPR.

[@CriticalofOnions]

I heard a song of hers on adult swim, I've honestly never heard anything like this, it's very unique and awesome. Kudos to her; best in show!

[@Ac_Amora]

Here after the Bluecoats lol 💙

[@Feedurehed]

Love the diversity of NPR and LOVE Anna Meredith!!!!

[@lahzuli7291]

Yessssss Anna!!! And approved the amazing video description with the shout out to Philip Glass!

[@PelleKuipers]

Didn't care much for the first song but the second is wonderful. Really nice layering and it reminds me of one of the songs used in Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.

[@Suryabeep]

I clicked on the thumbnail and went back to soldering up a pcb and then I heard an orchestra and went "wait a minute this was tiny desk, yeah?" and I wasn't soldering after I looked back up.

[@paulkeyes3066]

Brilliant. Original. Thank you!

[@HEARTMACHINEPLUSULTRA]

I need a new album from her ASAP

[@faustocastillo4740]

It's so good, out of this world.

[@nightcandle62]

never hear any contemporay music that hurts,heals my heart! has real integrity.

[@jimdonaldson2245]

Gobsmacked how she has been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize

[@Ele3214]

I know, was so happy she got the nomination.

[@FlecknellPhotography]

MORE! I WANT MORE! This was excellent keep it up you guys!!!!

[@RickF-dw8cl]

The cellist rocks that instrument.

[@angryprimalbug5417]

Here from Bloo

[@BenReichsteinSound]

Pure genius! Thank you for that spectacular perfomance

[@playinmyblues]

Love when that tuba kicks in.

[@user-sj2vn1jq4c]

4:46 😂

[@rogerdboyle1]

Saw her Liverpool library over a year back. Would go a long way to see her again.

[@rphrph167]

Fantastic energy!!!....vapours is my top for 2019 and possibly 2020!!