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Verma started off the night with wah-powered jams reminiscent of instrumental Flaming Lips and Spacemen 3. The term psychedelic will be used all too prevalent with this band, hopefully more as a description rather than a pigeonhole. The reverb-laced female vocals allowed the bowling alley to breathe more vertically than horizontally. Driving tempos and hypnotic bass carried the set full steam ahead. Catch them again at the Empty Bottle on November 5th as part of the Giant System showcase.
Next up, Shapers: a band that certainly doesn’t allow a music writer any conveniences. The few empty spaces the band embraces collapse unto themselves into chaotic mindbenders. Tempo changes and odd time signatures abound; when the band actually does play in 4/4 time, they do their best to make it sound like anything but. Keyboardist and singer Amelia hits plastic ivory and twists knobs as if defusing a bomb; our lives depend on her precision. The drummer inflects jazz rhythms and dynamics that make it impossible to toe-tap, but rather force the listener to concentrate and figure out how exactly this band manages to stay in time with each other. Check out a video we posted a couple days ago.
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