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LAKE
Also Playing: Karl Blau and Sad Accordions
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Wed Nov 11
10 pm,
LAKE, Karl Blau, and Sad Accordions at Emo's Jr.
With its airy, autumnal shimmer and coy male-female vocals, Olympia’s LAKE treads in dangerously twee waters—and mostly dove into them headlong with 2008’s listlessly laid-back, if surprisingly soulful, Oh, The Places We’ll Go. But it avoids stagnation on its sophomore album for K Records, Let’s Build A Roof, by revealing the teeming weeds of horns, marimba, piano, and even tribalist polyrhythms hiding beneath that otherwise impenetrably calm surface—one made even more opaque by the reverb-heavy production, courtesy of mellow man of mystery Karl Blau. He plays here behind his recent Zebra, a throbbing, shambolic blend of dub, reggae, and Blau’s funk-inflected folk (or is it the other way around?) that admirably embodies indie rock’s current African zeitgeist. Austin’s Sad Accordions conjure black forest bad dreams first.
Emo's Jr. 603 Red River St, Austin, TX
With its airy, autumnal shimmer and coy male-female vocals, Olympia’s LAKE treads in dangerously twee waters—and mostly dove into them headlong with 2008’s listlessly laid-back, if surprisingly soulful, Oh, The Places We’ll Go. But it avoids stagnation on its sophomore album for K Records, Let’s Build A Roof, by revealing the teeming weeds of horns, marimba, piano, and even tribalist polyrhythms hiding beneath that otherwise impenetrably calm surface—one made even more opaque by the reverb-heavy production, courtesy of mellow man of mystery Karl Blau. He plays here behind his recent Zebra, a throbbing, shambolic blend of dub, reggae, and Blau’s funk-inflected folk (or is it the other way around?) that admirably embodies indie rock’s current African zeitgeist. Austin’s Sad Accordions conjure black forest bad dreams first.
Updated 10/30/2009
