CMJ 2012 Issue! - The Deli

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10/17 post- chestral @ the livin
The Deli’s CMJ Shows ’12
7:00pm
DTRotbot
D
TRotbot’s latest single
“Lily” opens like a
Zappa or Captain
Beefheart classic that never
was. Going through more
changes in its first two
minutes than many artists’
entire records, it’s exciting
to hear an artist exploring
this oft-ignored nether region
of pop music’s experiments
- spoken word and sound collage
come together in one
backyard. For those fans
looking to find a cheap way to ascend
to Mars without the aid of too many
dangerous drugs, DTRotbot should be
all you need. (Mike Levine)
7:45pm
In One Wind
B
ands like In One Wind, seem to
hail from some unknown country
with a newly discovered set of
music traditions that help us digest our
modern landscape in instruments both
foreign and familiar. On their debut EP
Lean, the group nearly invents their
own folk tradition here, especially
when reinterpreting stories by the
Brothers Grimm (“Golden Sphere”)
and re-working modern legends like
Roy Lichtenstein for the transient “Oh,
Brad.” Theirs is an ambitious journey
that welds a surprisingly coherent
narrative thread to a complex set of
Baroque pop numbers. (Mike Levine)
8:30pm
Friend Roulette
here’s a perfectly hummable
sentiment somewhere in Friend
TRoulette’s “Sailing Song” that
keeps working its way back to the surface,
but only after first progressing
through all manner of uneven meter
changes, brass fanfare and incidental
thematic adventure. At times stepping
boldly into a space usually exclusive to
the imagination of score composers like
Danny Elfman, the group essentially
writes baroque pop pieces for an imagined
Brechtian musical, casting its talented
singers/songwriters Julia Tepper
and Matthew Meade as the show’s
unlikely protagonists. After moving
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Photo: Betsi Ewing
through so much sonic landscape, you
might think it reasonable that you’d
eventually get a good idea about how
this band operates. But like an old noir
film, Friend Roulette never gives away
the plot. (Mike Levine)
9:15pm
Doe Paoro
W
hen Brooklyn-based outfit Doe
Paoro, led by Sonia Kreitzer
who used to sing in the collective
Sonia’s Party, takes the stage,
there’s bound to be demons in the
room. Having garnered comparisons to
artists like Lykke Li and James Blake,
Kreitzer describes the kind of music
that she performs as “ghost soul” (i.e.
“a sound that echoes the resurrection
of a choir of ghosts who haven’t
completely detached from the human
experience”). We’ll also add that those
ghosts have a beautiful soulful voice,
and the benefit of classical influences
that she was exposed to in her formative
years. (Amanda Dissinger)
11:40pm
Industries
of the Blind
or those of you sick of being
lazy at the beach and ready
Fto get back to some epic jams
to get into the swing of things, look
no further than post-rock ensemble
Industries of the Blind. Lifting off
to planets only visible to bands like
Mogwai or Sigur Ros, the instrumental
nine-piece includes three guitarists,
an industrious drummer, and two very
hard-working violinists. This is a band
that starts at 10 and keeps hashing out
an idea until it clears your skull of all
misgivings. (Mike Levine)
12:30am
Starlight Girls
D
espite the name, Starlight Girls
is actually two ladies & two
gentlemen. Sharing a taste for
eerie synth-laden atmospheres with
Magazine’s Formula, making playful
use of the flute and keys, they can shift
their dark concoctions straight from
the realm of pop artists like Belle &
Sebastian into a theatrical symphonie
des oddities. Following the self-titled
EP they released in April, watch out
for their new single, to be released in
November, which features a collaboration
with Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart.
(Tracy Mamoun)
1:15am
Dangerous Ponies
(Philly)
T
Starlight Girls
his pop-infused, gang vocals adorin’
circus masquerade rock is
the type that morphs you into a
high-octane gale on the dance floor, do
not miss live.
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