event Modern Skirts
Also Playing: Skybox
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Fri Nov 20
7:30 pm
Modern Skirts and Skybox at Project Lodge
Listening to Chicago's Skybox might actually make one believe that its particular patch of indie-rock territory is still a place for the eccentric to stretch out a bit, rather than a pit for the uncreative to cower in. Skybox's new album, Morning After Cuts, begins with a track ("In A Dream") that threatens to blend in with so much blatant dance-pop fluff. Then it goes on to keep alive the promise of 2006's Arco Iris with creepy cabaret antics, rattling about with the rhythm of a roughly handled marionette and building on leader Tim Ellis' voice, which theatrically works in a bit of The Dresden Dolls' mincing menace and an old-timey croon that recalls Mr. Show's "Monsters Of Megaphone" sketch.
Project Lodge 817 E. Johnson St., Madison, WI
Listening to Chicago's Skybox might actually make one believe that its particular patch of indie-rock territory is still a place for the eccentric to stretch out a bit, rather than a pit for the uncreative to cower in. Skybox's new album, Morning After Cuts, begins with a track ("In A Dream") that threatens to blend in with so much blatant dance-pop fluff. Then it goes on to keep alive the promise of 2006's Arco Iris with creepy cabaret antics, rattling about with the rhythm of a roughly handled marionette and building on leader Tim Ellis' voice, which theatrically works in a bit of The Dresden Dolls' mincing menace and an old-timey croon that recalls Mr. Show's "Monsters Of Megaphone" sketch.
Updated 11/11/2009
