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Member Since: 3/20/2005
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Band Members: PAUL COPOC - guitar, vocals, trumpet
SARAH COPOC- vocals, bells, keys, voice changer, recorder
CRAIG DOMES - flute, keys, bells, shakers, melodica, vocals
ALEX WILSON - bass master, trombone
JOE NICKELL - sticks, skins, and metal, vocals
past members
Sarah Oester - drums
Jesse McNeece - bass, engineer of 1st album
Joe Danger - drums
Eric Wimmer - bass, drums
Bryan Hickey - bass
Influences: friends, dancing, love, hate, wind, birds, people, good things, bad things, patience, impatience, opposites, toilets, alot of bands, music, life, silly influence boxes where we write our influences
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Sounds Like: the birds chirping through an autumn breeze while laying by a fire in the dead of night during an a.d.d. kids retreat
What other folks say about Two Year Touqe's - Greatest Hits?
Greatest Hits?
Zagenhoft records/Copoc Rock records
Who says honest-to-goodness love doesn't exist in music anymore? The rest of the peons can sing of the booty 'til their hearts turn to dust, but when you hear the brutal honesty of Missoula four-piece Two Year Touqe's self-released disc, there is hope for ture love after all. These are home recordings that wander along the paths of The Velvet Underground, Beat Happening, The Vaselines and Unrest with just a smidgen of The Fall. Lyrical observations are drawn from the everyday existence of Two Year Touqe and it's members, whether drinking tea or spending time on the toilet.
Mostly, though, Greatest Hits? deals with the deep love the main instigators, husband and wife Paul and Sarah Copoc, have for each other. It's pretty cool that they succeed, considering most musicians can't get away with such a thing without sounding wanky. "Adorable" isn't too wide off the mark, here, with innocent chemistry and singalong-styled arrangements. The Sarah/Paul duets are great, and judging from the most recent recordings, which are the last three tunes on the disc, many better and brighter things are still to come. (Bryan Ramirez) - Noise section in Missoula Independent.
what other folks say about Two Year Touqe's - The Midi West
Warning: Two Year Touqe’s new album is slightly addictive and may be harmful to your cynical veneer. Side-effects include whistling the tunes in public and developing a temporarily sunnier disposition which risks thawing out that cold, cold heart of yours. The five-piece homegrown band owes its captivating magic to frontpeople Sarah (voice) and Paul Copoc (guitar/voice), a husband-and-wife team with no hesitation singing about their mutual adoration. Yes, it’s cute and maybe not very cool in the traditional rock ’n’ roll sense—but that’s partly what makes it cool. That, and the fact that song subjects range from true love to pill-popping to the realities of pooping.Cleverly straddling the line between silly fun and an ever-present emotional earnestness, the album is easy to digest and easy to buy into. That is, unless you don’t have a snippet of romanticism or a streak of black humor running through your veins.Highlights include the darkly delightful “Stinky Baby,†which laments the love and loss of a ferret, and “These Daysâ€â€”a bit of minor-key nostalgia with bright overtones. Simple beats, miscellaneous percussion and rudimentary but extremely fresh rhyming lyrics make The Midi West a wolf disguised in sheep’s clothing. (Erika Fredrickson) - missoula independant
Two Year Touqe’s The Midi West (CDB) is full of all kinds of trickery. Paul Copoc sings “she’s like candy to my teeth,†which sort of describes what it’s like to consume this album. It’s easy, silly and it makes you a kid again. But the pop riffs and lyrical sincerity have a disarming effect that leaves you open to the sadder, more nostalgic moments. It’s simple and good for the soul, in a way that’s hard to admit but harder to dispute. (EF) - missoula independant's critics, favorite albums of 2005
Two Year Touqe’s music is so far away from being my thing that I’m surprised that my CD player accepted the disc. That being said, I can appreciate when something is done well, and “The Midi West†is an extremely well done indie-pop record. Husband and wife duo Paul and Sarah Copoc craft slightly melancholy songs with pretty melodies and whimsical lyrics. And that’s where it falls down for me, the lyrics. They have a faux-naif kind of vibe that when combined with the melodies bring to mind songs from a children’s variety show. As I said, not my thing at all, but fans of Beat Happening and the Danielson Famile would do well to investigate. 7/10 -- Neddal Ayad (24 October, 2005) foxy digitalis
This is the first submission I’ve heard that includes songs about peeing, pooping, abusing insomnia medication, and dogs eating ferrets. At the same time, it also includes adorable love songs with lines like "He is my one and only/ She loves to have and hold me ... He has eyes/ She loves biscotti." Overall, the lo-fi, exuberant sound gives the album the feel of a late-night family party when the tipsy uncles and sugar-mad cousins grab random instruments and laugh themselves silly. - meredith - 75 or less
Two Year Touqe is weirdo lo-fi from Montana that occasionally is catchy but is mainly just annoying and filled with male/female vocals that seem perpetually out of tune. Jangly guitars and weird songs abound. “2-Ply Drive By†is about pooping, and “Stinky Baby†is a number about a now-deceased ferret that comes off being fairly funny as opposed to sad. “Imovane†was the only track I could even come close to tolerating, mainly because it was the only song that had any sort of cohesive punk sound throughout. The over-use of the recorder and stupid sound effects seals the deal that this is indeed a craptacular album. Music like this makes me wish I was dead. Or maybe I am and I’m in hell and listening to this is some form of eternal punishment. Oh wait, I can shut this shit off. Thank God. –Kurt Morris (CDB) - razorcake
Ruby: On the indie side of jangle rock… poppy and very clever. Smart, fun, goofy, excellent.
Oswald: What Poop Yer Pants should be… funny and dorky. Crazy Mary/They Might Be Giants.
Sirhaan: Fun, hip, Paul & Paula. My six-year-old will dig it, but so do I.
Hinckley: Perverted playskool; fun, entertaining birthday party jusic for adolescents who skip multiple grades. - hybrid magazine
TWO YEAR TOUQE are newcomers with a sound that's undeniably endearing. At times you feel like you're eavesdropping on their own family songs. Hybrid magazine had this to say: "On the indie side of jangle rock, poppy and very clever. Smart, fun, goofy, excellent...Perverted playskool; fun, entertaining birthday party music for adolescents who skip multiple grades." Neddal Ayad of Foxy Digitalis says: "fans of Beat Happening and the Danielson Famile would do well to investigate." - parasol
Ox-Fanzine / Ausgabe 63
Another great antifolk record .. .oder handelt es sich um eine Indieplatte? Wie auch immer, Musik dieser Art kann es nicht genug geben - viel Puppy Love, Wrestling mit Kätzchen und Hühnern, wie es ist eine Giraffe in einem Burggraben zu sein, und so eine schräge Flöteneinlage hab ich auch zuletzt in der ersten Klasse gehört. Hat ein wenig was von einer skurrilen Varieté-Show von Kindern für frisch Verknallte, die sich morgens gegenseitig mit Kelloggs füttern. Mich wundert's, dass auf dem Fernseher kein Bild von Alfred Jodocus Quak erscheint, der verschmitzt lächelt und sich in der Nase rumpopelt. Paul und Sarah Copoc haben nach ihrer Heirat TWO YEAR TOUQE ins Leben gerufen und verraten nun dem Rest der Welt, was sich bei ihnen gefühlsmäßig so abspielt - ach, Liebe kann ja so schön sein mit all den Glöckchen. "She never pees though she drinks a lot of tea", "He's the president inside my heart" - eine Liebeserklärung auf CD - so was mach ich auch mal für meine Mikrowelle. Ein Haufen simpler Gefühle, Drei-Akkord-Gitarren, kein einziger Ton wird getroffen und doch ist es eine gute Platte. Wer BEAT HAPPENING und die VASELINES mag, sich aber auch sonst zum Twee- und Indie-Pop hingezogen fühlt, tut sich hiermit bestimmt einen großen Gefallen. (07/10) (Martha Biadun)
© by OX-FANZINE / Ausgabe 63
This is the above review translated by SYSTRAN
Another great antifolk records. oder concerns it a Indieplatte? However, music of this kind can give it not enough - much Puppy Love, Wrestling with kaetzchen and chickens, like is to be been a giraffe in a castle ditch, and so a diagonal flute insert also last I in the first class heard. A little has which from a skurrilen Varieté-show von Kindern for freshly slammed, who feed themselves in the morning mutually with Kelloggs. Me wundert's that on the television no picture of Alfreds Jodocus Quak appears, which smiles verschmitzt and itself in the nose rumpopelt. Paul and Sarah Copoc called after its marriage TWO YEAR TOUQE in the life and betrayed now the remainder of the world, which takes place in such a way by feel with them - oh, love can be so beautiful with all the Gloeckchen. "She of more never pees though she drinks A plumb bob OF tea", "He's the president inside my heart" - a declaration of love on CD - so which Mach I also times for my microwave. A heap of simple feelings, three-akkord-guitars, not one clay/tone met and nevertheless is it a good plate. Who likes BEAT HAPPENING and the VASE LINES, in addition, otherwise to the Twee and Indie Pop feels drawn, does hereby determines a large favour. (07/10) (Martha Biadun)
© by OX-FANZINE / expenditure 63
Record Label: CDB records / TUMMY ROCK! records
Type of Label: Indie
