Ten years in the past, someday after Speedy Ortiz remodeled itself from a Sadie Dupuis solo venture right into a functioning rock band, its jagged and intelligent early singles caught the eye of NPR Music’s Lars Gotrich. So we reached out to inquire a few Tiny Desk live performance, solely to be taught that the timing wasn’t fairly proper: The group did not have any days off and its members had been involved they would not sound their greatest, so that they responded to our request with a query of their very own. “Can we do it later?”

Now, Speedy Ortiz is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its debut album, Main Arcana — and eventually making good on that supply to return again one other time, although it needs to be famous that Dupuis’ facet venture Sad13 did play a killer Tiny Desk (house) live performance again in 2020. However this set stands as a definitive Speedy Ortiz time capsule, bringing collectively band members of the previous and current whereas capturing one music from every of the group’s 4 albums: “The Graduates” (from 2015’s Foil Deer), “Scabs” (from the brand new Rabbit Rabbit), “Fortunate 88” (from 2018’s Twerp Verse) and “Plough” (from Main Arcana). It is actually a efficiency 10 years within the making, to not point out a super showcase for the band’s wiry, eternally quotable attraction. Even the stuffed bunnies appear impressed.

SET LIST

• “The Graduates”
• “Scabs”
• “Fortunate 88”
• “Plough”

MUSICIANS

• Sadie Dupuis: electrical guitar, lead vocal 
• Andy Molholt: electrical guitar, piano, backing vocal
• Audrey Zee Whitesides: bass, backing vocal
• Joey Doubek: drums
• Devin McKnight: acoustic guitar/aux percussion
• Darl Ferm: acoustic guitar/aux percussion
• Camellia Hartman: violin 

TINY DESK TEAM

• Producer: Bob Boilen
• Director/Editor: Maia Stern
• Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
• Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
• Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Kara Body, Sofia Seidel
• Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
• Photographer: Zayrha Rodriguez
• Tiny Desk Staff: Suraya Mohamed, Hazel Cills
• VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
• Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann