MSR & Angioplasty Media Presents…
8/2 @ The Monkey House
Blues Control w. Josh Lanney
Doors: 8, Show: 9
$5, 21+
“By realizing that following the footsteps of your elders is deeper than looking or sounding like them, they’ve managed to make one of the best, classically ‘rock’ albums in recent memory. It’s all about going back to what it was all about in the first place: making a mess of the status quo.” – Ad Hoc
“Their piano-driven instrumentals still combine new age music, Krautrock, and classic rock, and on most of the new Valley Tangents (Drag City), especially ‘Opium Den/Fade to Blue,’ you can hear the influence of their pastoral environment: it’s got a kind of backwoodsy Cluster aesthetic, emphasizing meditative noodling and rolling rhythms that make you wish for a hammock, damn it. ” – Chicago Reader“the duo seems to relish the freedom that comes with feeding their experimental streak. Cho, a classically trained prodigy, flexes her piano chops more overtly on the new album, along with synthesized flourishes that suggest Ars Electronica as much as Eno. Waterhouse, meanwhile, is a punk-rock guitarist at heart, squeezing out tasteful phrases and dissonant wails through a veil of overdriven fuzz. ” – Time Out New York
“Imagine a robot jazz band falling in with a group of wandering minstrels and blissing out to the view of mountains on the horizon.” – Philadelphia City Paper