After more than a year of touring, remixing, producing and more touring, Buffalo Daughter has returned home to the more mundane matters of daily life. Bassist and Moog player extraordinaire Yumiko Ohno recently tied the knot with longtime paramour Zak (producer of the Fishmans among others) while DJ Moog Yamamoto's young son took his first step up the educational ladder and began nursery school. Guitarist Sugar bought a bicycle.
But it's not all boring domesticities. "When I got back from touring," explained Sugar in a recent interview, "I didn't listen to any music at all. I was just drowning in videos, just watching movies all the time. I was especially touched by 'Showgirls.' "
It's a brave confession considering that "Showgirls" is often found at the top of critics worst-ever lists, but for Sugar and the BD gang an interest in strippers is emblematic of a step away from the post-rock restraint of their last album, "New Rock," toward something a little more sexy.