![]() ![]() “Tank is a force of nature, just full of joy, and her band is killing in the background.” “I immediately loved this,” Anastasio said. The judges’ comments suggest choosing the Bangas submission wasn’t much of a contest. While vocalists Tarriona “Tank” Ball and Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph bounce raps, soulful shouts, and some knowing looks off of one another, occasionally finishing each other’s sentences, the band knocks out a skeletal, throbbing pulse that mixes old-school soul with the skittering beats of electronic music - all in service of a severely twisted tale of a night out, or maybe a few nights out, gone wrong. The setting was a nice garnish, to be sure, but there’s little doubt that the band could’ve performed this tour-de-force against a brick wall and still won. Tank’s video submission included the group playing the song in a classroom and using school-related props, including textbooks, markers, and a dry erase board to add some novelty to an already-quirky song. ![]() ![]() The contest, which began in December of 2014, solicits performances by largely unknown bands all over the country, with a panel of judges that includes Boilen, Phish’s Trey Anastasio, and R&B singer Anthony Hamilton selecting the winner. Perhaps that’s why Tank & The Bangas’ submission, a bouncing super-ball of fun, hip-hop, and pure energy called “Quick,” won this year’s contest out of 6,000 submissions. After all, the Tiny Desk series, which features mini concerts by artists from Tom Jones to T-Pain performed at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen, are intimate by definition. One would think that most of the video submissions that NPR gets for its Tiny Desk Concert series contest are relatively stripped-down, acoustic performances. ![]()
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