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Thu 16th Eat Your Own Ears presents *SOLD OUT* BATTLES + Semifinalists - Doors 7.30 Battles features an almost too-good-to-be-true lineup of avant-experimentalists and math rock musicians including John Stanier (the drummer from Helmet and currently playing drums in Tomahawk), Ian Williams, guitarist/keyboardist (played guitar in Don Caballero and Storm and Stress), David Konopka (guitarist with art algebra rock band Lynx) and Tyondai Braxton (keyboard player, beat boxer and avant-garde solo musician). It's mind-blowing; layered and rhythmic with strict definitions and timing. Imagine the laboratory of a mad scientist. In your mind, everywhere you look are knick-knack inventions spinning and jittering. Quirky noises - pings of metal on metal and fizzing liquids - can be heard in the background in a symphony of labour and ingenuity. East London's Semifinalists play a live set of raw, melodic, punky pop post rock, mixing delicate tunes with driving drums and layers of guitar. Imagine all the '80s pop hit records melted into one huge blob, then re-cut and re-constructed by King Crimson and Sonic Youth. Of course references can be made to The Flaming Lips, The Unicorns, Cindy Lauper etc. but fuck that. Semifinalists may sound like psychedelic pop/folk weirdness schizophrenia, but they are punk. More info from Eat Your Own Ears. RSS |
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