A new single from Brooklyn’s Sensual Harassment. It sounds like noisy percussion sliding into a heavy bass chug with MGMT’esqe vocals. It’s engineered by Jesse Cannon (The Cure, Animal Collective) and should go over huge in places like Portland, and well Brooklyn. This one is for your ipod not your DJ set. “They water board their idols with layers upon layers of nostalgic noise that one can only
imagine would amount to a deluge of monolithic tones heard live.” – Impose Fever by sensualharassment
Christmas is nine days away, but my present comes early in the form of a fantastic tour stopping through Portland.
Sic Alps was probably the group I was most excited about during this year’s SMMR BMMR, both before and after the actual show. Something about the earnestness of their demeanor coupled with the underlying pop-sensibilities of their music has me totally hooked. Even on their newest, a split with tour-mates Magik Markers, Sic Alps experiment with spoken word, melisma, jangle and distortion, all on the same track! The appropriately titled closing track to their side of the 12″, ‘The Greatest’, sees them experimenting with vocal pitch to create a track that would come off as a joke, if it wasn’t so well washed in their signature echoed agression.
So there’s that, but one critical component I’ve yet to discuss is the flip side to that 12″, the wonderful Magik Markers. Where some bands like Harlem propose to release a new track each month, Magik Markers put them to shame, releasing what feels like multiple albums per year. Thing with them is, they are as consistent as Radiohead or Animal Collective in their output, even if they release at three times the pace. Don’t even get me started on the amazing side projects. The bottom line is, no matter when you’ve decided to give them a shot, chances are you’ve picked up one of my favorite records from that year.
Geez, I haven’t even mentioned that Eat Skull are playing! Too much to say about this show… I suggest you just join me in experiencing it.
The show goes down at Eagles Lodge (4904 SE Hawthorne) this Wednesday. 8:30PM, and don’t be a minute late!
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