here - The Deli

Tuesday Oct 19
@ The Delancey - Downstairs
INDIE POP + PSYCH STAGE
Deluka
www.myspace.com/deluka
Living Days
www.myspace.com/livingdays
Mike Del Rio
www.myspace.com/mikedelrio
Deluka – 12:30am
By Meijin Bruttomesso
Deluka deliver delectable dance tracks suitable
for clubs across all ponds. Ellie Innocenti’s brooding
but lush vocal quality blends perfectly with
accompanying bass drones, electronic effects,
new wave nuances, and occasional techno
trends. Their repertoire jumps into high-gear with
“OMFG,” guitar-riff driven “Snapshot,” and invigorating
“Nevada.” The melodious “Come Back to
Me,” single, “Cascade,” and tender “Name On My
Lips” surge forward into the irresistibly danceable
“Mean Streak,” the record highlight that is worthy
of innumerous spins. Deluka maintain a balance
between a rock grittiness and dance party energy,
a sound that satisfies New York cravings.
Living Days – 10:15pm
By Meijin Bruttomesso
Lead female singer Stephonik Youth’s intriguing
low register darkens the mood of this band’s
swirling electronic indie pop, that can’t help but
bring to our mind the glorious 80s Bostonian
band The Cars. Effervescent keyboard lines
merge with dance-rock rhythms, fashioning
music suitable for underground club dynamics.
Descending guitar arpeggios kick start bubblegum,
electro-pop “Go Oblivion,” but a haunting
quality is maintained with heavy echoing distortion.
The quick pace escalates further to frenetic
on “Let’s Kiss!” which bounces across atmospheric
leads. Bittersweet melodies, ethereal
harmonies, and towering layers of synthesizers
on “Bury the World” contrast with the brooding
and sultry pulsations of “Little White Lie” that
undulate beneath vocals which decrescendo
into whispering loops and a few closing clicks.
The Yes Way – 9:30pm
By Meijin Bruttomesso
Taking a path less-common than most indie pop
bands, Brooklynites The Yes Way offer us a pleasant-but-eerie
melodic rock with punk attitude,
where peppy-pop melodies are hybridized with
indie elements. Distortion ebbs and flows (sans
shoegazing) and sauntering beats, playful guitar
strums and uplifting vocal harmonies abound .
Although active around town and in recording
studios, the multi-instrumental pack has yet to
say, “yes,” to an official release date of any type of
album – expect it to be ready in early 2011.
www.myspace.com/theyesway
Mike Del rio – 8:45pm
By Whitney Phaneuf
New York City native son Mike Del Rio deserves
fame and fortune. Let’s stop rewarding talentless
reality TV parasites with recording contracts
and pop star treatment. In addition to being
absolutely dreamy (note: mass appeal, good
looks), Del Rio sings, writes his own songs and
plays no less than “guitar, bass, drums, beats,
arrangements, brass, synth, mellotrons, bells
and whistles, etc.” “The New Year,” a single
available for free download, could be the next
tween pop anthem. We need pop anthems now
more than ever from a young man that loves
art, Downtown Brooklyn, and milkshakes.
Zambri – 8:00pm By Paolo De Gregorio
Exuberant dual sisterhood Zambri is constantly
refining its sound – their initial Madonna and
Zappa influenced electronic mad-pop has recently
matured into something more structured
and organic, dressed in an incredibly varied
palette of sounds reminiscent at times of Peter
Gabriel’s sophisticated atmospheres and a less
shoegazy version of School of Seven Bells.
Their Italian roots add to the charm of course!
www.myspace.com/zambri
Milagres – 7:15pm
By PJD
Fans and Deli readers alike will know Milagres
by their former name, Secret Life of Sofia,
who took home the bronze in the Deli Magazine’s
Reader Poll Best of 2008. More recently,
their “Empty Sleeve” album earned them a
top-ten ranking in the Best EPs of 2009 list on
Pop Tarts Suck Toasted. Milagres say they’re
happier now with the name change, presumably
because it is representative of a deeper and
more meaningful transformation for the band.
Expect beautifully ghost-like vocal melodies
backed by dreamy and swelling instrumentation.
www.myspace.com/milargresmusic
Swingset Committee
6:30pm By Paolo De Gregorio
These guys blend buzzing synth rock with
dance elements and… is that Doo-Wop style
harmonies? Wait, there’s some techno style
“thump-z thump-z” in there too! Vocoders?
Droney indie guitar parts? Swingset Committee
are like a synthetic zoo of musical styles.
www.myspace.com/swingsetcommittee
Blackbird Blackbird (SF)– 11:45pm
www.myspace.com/byeblackbird
The rassle – 11:00pm (See page 34)
www.myspace.com/therassle
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