event Mannequin Men
Also Playing: White Mystery and Blasted Diplomats and Village
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John Sturdy
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Fri Dec 18
10 pm
http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/VenueListings.action?venueId=10103 Mannequin Men, White Mystery, Blasted Diplomats, and Village at Empty Bottle
Chicago quartet Mannequin Men doesn’t make avant-garde music, but its early material isn’t exactly user-friendly either. The group’s 2005 album Showbiz Witch was a fuzzed-out mess of grunge howls and distortion, though it also showed a serious devotion to catchy rock sing-alongs; that loyalty was confirmed by 2007’s Fresh Rot. The band’s latest effort, Lose Your Illusion, Too, continues that process by tightening up Fresh Rot’s already taut proto-punk-meets-garage-rock sound. Illusion isn’t exactly a paradigm shifter, though. It initially trips, especially on rushed opener “Rathole,” but once the band regains its footing, Illusion succeeds strongly by expertly uniting the jaunty punk reverberations of Television with the pub-rock shouts of pre-London Calling The Clash, sometimes even in the same track.
Empty Bottle 1035 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL
Chicago quartet Mannequin Men doesn’t make avant-garde music, but its early material isn’t exactly user-friendly either. The group’s 2005 album Showbiz Witch was a fuzzed-out mess of grunge howls and distortion, though it also showed a serious devotion to catchy rock sing-alongs; that loyalty was confirmed by 2007’s Fresh Rot. The band’s latest effort, Lose Your Illusion, Too, continues that process by tightening up Fresh Rot’s already taut proto-punk-meets-garage-rock sound. Illusion isn’t exactly a paradigm shifter, though. It initially trips, especially on rushed opener “Rathole,” but once the band regains its footing, Illusion succeeds strongly by expertly uniting the jaunty punk reverberations of Television with the pub-rock shouts of pre-London Calling The Clash, sometimes even in the same track.
Updated 11/18/2011
