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Dawes
Also Playing: Cory Chisel And The Wandering Sons and Jason Boesel
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Matt Fruen
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Sun Feb 14
8 pm
Dawes, Cory Chisel And The Wandering Sons, and Jason Boesel at Turner Hall Ballroom
Given how California quartet Dawes was formed out of the ashes of alt-rock group Simon Dawes, it’s hard to imagine the younger outfit’s members ever had access to distortion pedals or occasion to raise their singing voices to yelping shouts. The impossibly sunny roots-rock group sounds straight out of another, much simpler era: Its naked sentiments are lovingly stitched into a tender quilt of patient piano chords, gentle and lush vocal harmonies, and floating acoustic-guitar chords. In other words, songs like “Take Me Out Of The City” and “Love Is All I Am” aren’t groping for bigger meanings—they’re face-value ponderings of simpler things and thoughts that are easily brushed over in louder and busier music.
Turner Hall Ballroom 1032 N 4th St, Milwaukee, WI
Given how California quartet Dawes was formed out of the ashes of alt-rock group Simon Dawes, it’s hard to imagine the younger outfit’s members ever had access to distortion pedals or occasion to raise their singing voices to yelping shouts. The impossibly sunny roots-rock group sounds straight out of another, much simpler era: Its naked sentiments are lovingly stitched into a tender quilt of patient piano chords, gentle and lush vocal harmonies, and floating acoustic-guitar chords. In other words, songs like “Take Me Out Of The City” and “Love Is All I Am” aren’t groping for bigger meanings—they’re face-value ponderings of simpler things and thoughts that are easily brushed over in louder and busier music.
Updated 11/01/2011
