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Brief Candles
Also Playing: Gospel Gossip and Scrimshaw and Pony Trash
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Sat Mar 3
9:30 pm
Brief Candles, Gospel Gossip, Scrimshaw, and Pony Trash at Cactus Club
Back in 2006, Milwaukee’s Brief Candles released the excellent They Live We Sleep, an album that perfectly captured the band’s way with lush guitarscapes and airy vocals reminiscent of Ride, Swervedriver, and the ’80s and ’90s 4AD Records scene. Five long years later, 2011’s Fractured Days picks up where They Live left off. Practiced in My Bloody Valentine’s bewitching way of creating music so layered that it nearly evaporates off into contradictory airy and aggressive beauty, the album might be considered a weighty affair with its melting guitars, heart-heavy bass lines, and swirling atmospherics. It’s an earful without a ton of breathing room, yet the music’s honest appeal never lets it sink too heavily or take on any shade of gratuitous moodiness. Milwaukee’s Scrimshaw, meanwhile, mines a deeply weird (and giddily infectious) spirit that calls to mind the early 4-track experiments of Ween.
Cactus Club 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Back in 2006, Milwaukee’s Brief Candles released the excellent They Live We Sleep, an album that perfectly captured the band’s way with lush guitarscapes and airy vocals reminiscent of Ride, Swervedriver, and the ’80s and ’90s 4AD Records scene. Five long years later, 2011’s Fractured Days picks up where They Live left off. Practiced in My Bloody Valentine’s bewitching way of creating music so layered that it nearly evaporates off into contradictory airy and aggressive beauty, the album might be considered a weighty affair with its melting guitars, heart-heavy bass lines, and swirling atmospherics. It’s an earful without a ton of breathing room, yet the music’s honest appeal never lets it sink too heavily or take on any shade of gratuitous moodiness. Milwaukee’s Scrimshaw, meanwhile, mines a deeply weird (and giddily infectious) spirit that calls to mind the early 4-track experiments of Ween.
Updated 06/27/2012
