event We Are The Willows
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Joe Engle
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Sun Dec 27
8 pm
We Are The Willows at The Frequency
The Eau Claire-based label Amble Down Records might at first seem like an indiscriminate blur of comforting folkie sounds and lilting vocal harmonies, but there's actually some unpleasantness and variety brewing under the placid exterior. First, Amble Down band The Daredevil Christopher Wright put out an album entitled In Deference To A Broken Back, and more recently, Minneapolis' We Are The Willows dropped 2009's A Collection Of Sounds And Something Like The Plague. The incredibly pure, high vocals of Willows' Peter Miller conjure the innocent and the eerie at once, a crucial link between acoustic guitars, glockenspiels, and gentle keys on one hand and the lyrical bluntness of songs like "A Funeral Dressed As A Birthday" on the other.
The Frequency 121 W. Main St., Madison, WI
The Eau Claire-based label Amble Down Records might at first seem like an indiscriminate blur of comforting folkie sounds and lilting vocal harmonies, but there's actually some unpleasantness and variety brewing under the placid exterior. First, Amble Down band The Daredevil Christopher Wright put out an album entitled In Deference To A Broken Back, and more recently, Minneapolis' We Are The Willows dropped 2009's A Collection Of Sounds And Something Like The Plague. The incredibly pure, high vocals of Willows' Peter Miller conjure the innocent and the eerie at once, a crucial link between acoustic guitars, glockenspiels, and gentle keys on one hand and the lyrical bluntness of songs like "A Funeral Dressed As A Birthday" on the other.
Updated 11/15/2011
