i agree with "no age" being a great new honest cool hip cute duo but john missed some important ones:
The Dagons (LA) - a band who list their genre as "other other other" on the space of my... gertie fox played with them years ago at the knitting factory the band was mesmerizing. dreamy guitar and drum duo, brutal and beautiful, creepy and fragile. all things i love about the most fucked people i'm drawn to. they made me think marriage isn't that bad. They're in france right now and i'm jealous.
The (motherfucking) CARPENTERS - brother sister duo featuring the late Karen on drums and one of the most smooth, honest, and full of matronly affirmative charmed voices ever; she could tuck me in, sing sweet songs about killing me in my sleep, and i'd dream about having warm tea with milk with her in the morning. we've only just begun.
The Kris Special (LA) - started as a duo, nick and ann. they grew over the years into a full band with full releases, longer tours, and complications but seeing them sing their ragged songs through the miserable, dry post-torrential cry throated angst-howl of ann on a monday night at mr t's bowl left a beautiful scar forevz. i love them and feel everything they sing. if elliot smith grew up in the desert and still managed to be miserable yet beautiful, he might have ended up being a third member.
there are my groups of twos that impacted me...
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