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Snake On The Lake
Maps & Atlases and Flight and Phonetic One and Meteorade
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Drew Reynolds
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Fri Sep 3
7 pm
Snake On The Lake at Memorial Union Terrace
Between a pair of late-'00s EPs—Tree, Swallows, Houses and You And Me And The Mountains—Maps & Atlases moved from dizzying displays of noodly post-rock to a poppier, more playful sound. This year's Perch Patchwork finds the Chicago quartet continuing that transition, its impulse to relax and let the songs sprawl out naturally seemingly a result of the band's new Barsuk Records surroundings. There's still some knotty, carefully considered virtuosity to be found on Perch Patchwork, but there's never been less doubt that it's the product of human hands—which only serves to make the whole enterprise artfully weirder.
Memorial Union Terrace 800 Langdon St, Madison, WI
Between a pair of late-'00s EPs—Tree, Swallows, Houses and You And Me And The Mountains—Maps & Atlases moved from dizzying displays of noodly post-rock to a poppier, more playful sound. This year's Perch Patchwork finds the Chicago quartet continuing that transition, its impulse to relax and let the songs sprawl out naturally seemingly a result of the band's new Barsuk Records surroundings. There's still some knotty, carefully considered virtuosity to be found on Perch Patchwork, but there's never been less doubt that it's the product of human hands—which only serves to make the whole enterprise artfully weirder.
Updated 03/01/2011
