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Super Napkin
96位粉丝
Yau (he/him/founding fuzzgod) is obsessed with bad puns. His life goal is to have a successful band that starts with ‘S’ in its name. He wants to have his band’s records stocked on the shelf next to Sonic Youth, Sonic Boom, and Shakira. Super Napkin is his third band with this naming convention. As the most ridiculous name out of the three, Yau intends to go to his grave with this one.
Steve Shih (he/him/drumming muscles) is the drummer of Super Napkin. He was drafted because both his family name and first name start with 'S', and because he has immensely musical muscles.
Weiting (she/her/the bass boss) loves Excel, the spreadsheeting software. When Yau and Steve asked her to be the band manager, they forgot to send in the request in a .csv format. Due to file format incompatibility, she ended up handling the band’s dirty low end instead.
Together, they've made five albums over eight years. Their sound is exactly what the term “Super Napkin” conjures in your head. You should be thinking of the band’s favorite superhero, Napkin Man, as he zooms across the universe drying the tears of the sad and heartbroken. He is the Taiwanese Santa Claus bringing you gifts to mend your broken soul. Sometimes, he will bring you a glass of milk. He will even mop up the spilled milk when you blubber in sadness. He will wrap you up in a warm fuzzy coat made up of pure goodness, and grease your bowels to release the sadness in your depths. Then he will offer you a Super Napkin to wipe your metaphoric ass with.
Subtropical Jet Stream (2022)
National Taiwan University Department of Sociology dropout at Revolver bar:
‘You cannot twist the meaning of a scientific term to describe how you want your music to sound like, or what you want your band to represent. What does this magnificent westwarding force originating from the US across the Pacific to Asia and now heading forward to European and the American continents from Taiwan bullshit even mean? You are not helping with decolonization with this gibberish. Streaming? Selling physical copies? Apparently, you are a slave of consumerism. You should provide your music for free if you really want to make a change. Your whining lyrics are no different than the typical Mandarin pop songs. Why do you even bother writing in English? You will never get a Pitchfork rating even if it’s a mere 0.0 unless they change their name to Pitchchopstick.’
Sherry’s Neighbors (2022)
A guy who shared a stage with Yau in the early 00s. Two kids and zero bands at the time being:
‘I think you are trying too hard to rip off Yo La Tengo this time, in a really shallow way! I suspect you are only creating this ‘Sherry’ character to be Super Napkin’s Jad Fair. The music is not even close. Shame on you.’
There’s Nothing That Cannot Beat Me (2020)
A Spurs Fan from Arizona:
‘Their 2020’s release, There’s Nothing That Cannot Beat Me, sees the band taking a step toward more refined aesthetics and bolder sonics -- a sound that roughly approximates the grandeur of their live shows, an intoxicating mix of delicately layered psychedelic guitars within which rambunctious raw noise moments bubble up to the surface.’
Diamond Shaped Hearts (2018)
Yau’s day-job coworker Taylor:
‘The band channels their inner DIY lo-fi ethos, serving up some scorching guitar tones -- the type that could make the hair on J. Mascis’s back stand on-end -- atop a bed of powerful, precise drumming and steady-as-she-goes bass riffs.’
Rhythmic Lizard Moon (2016)
YouTube user Cat_Cat:
‘Reverb, drone, endless guitar riffs, Super Napkin always gives us an illusion of shoegaze/Yo La Tengo wannabe, but hey, they are not. Adopting the unique psychedelic elements from the shoegazing era, Super Napkin would tell a depressive story without any reservation. By this point, they are more a punk band than any other fashioned-core thingy.’