event The Dear Hunter
Also Playing: Kay Kay And His Weathered Underground and The Felix Culpa
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Mon Apr 26
7:30 pm
The Dear Hunter, Kay Kay And His Weathered Underground, and The Felix Culpa at Marquis Theater
The Felix Culpa isn't a deep and brooding band, but if there were ever Learning Annex courses on such a thing, the jangly rock band would be the first to pre-register. The quartet "from the Illinois/Wisconsin border" tries valiantly, though, from a name (a religious term referring to Adam and Eve's loss of the Garden of Eden) and song titles clipped from a high-schooler's poetry journal ("Good Business Moves" and "The End Of Inspiration," for instance) to the band's rule that every song must build to a bombastic climax, even if it's unearned and feels hollow. The band's latest, Sever Your Roots, tosses around more Judas imagery over sinewy basslines, octave chords, and pretty but forceful singing.
Marquis Theater 2009 Larimer St, Denver/Boulder, CO
The Felix Culpa isn't a deep and brooding band, but if there were ever Learning Annex courses on such a thing, the jangly rock band would be the first to pre-register. The quartet "from the Illinois/Wisconsin border" tries valiantly, though, from a name (a religious term referring to Adam and Eve's loss of the Garden of Eden) and song titles clipped from a high-schooler's poetry journal ("Good Business Moves" and "The End Of Inspiration," for instance) to the band's rule that every song must build to a bombastic climax, even if it's unearned and feels hollow. The band's latest, Sever Your Roots, tosses around more Judas imagery over sinewy basslines, octave chords, and pretty but forceful singing.
Updated 04/19/2012
