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David Bazan
Also Playing: Stagnant Pools
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Wed Nov 7
9 pm
David Bazan and Stagnant Pools at Cactus Club
Like St. Augustine with an acoustic guitar and a better sense of humor, David Bazan has spent most of his career—in and out of Pedro The Lion—confessing his various crises of faith. Those doubts come to an urgent head on his 2009 solo debut, Curse Your Branches, which finds the melancholy singer taking his agnosticism in purposeful, if mournful stride, admitting he’s “clung to miracles I have not seen” and deciding that hell is right here on Earth—specifically his battles with the bottle, which he addresses with the same unsparing yet inspirational reproach. The 2011 release Strange Negotiations finds him continuing to mix sadness and hope in his inimitable style. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pedro The Lion’s excellent Control, Bazan is playing the album—and other assorted Pedro hits—on his fall tour.
Cactus Club 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Like St. Augustine with an acoustic guitar and a better sense of humor, David Bazan has spent most of his career—in and out of Pedro The Lion—confessing his various crises of faith. Those doubts come to an urgent head on his 2009 solo debut, Curse Your Branches, which finds the melancholy singer taking his agnosticism in purposeful, if mournful stride, admitting he’s “clung to miracles I have not seen” and deciding that hell is right here on Earth—specifically his battles with the bottle, which he addresses with the same unsparing yet inspirational reproach. The 2011 release Strange Negotiations finds him continuing to mix sadness and hope in his inimitable style. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pedro The Lion’s excellent Control, Bazan is playing the album—and other assorted Pedro hits—on his fall tour.
Updated 11/16/2012
