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Thu Jan 12
9 pm
Polica and Worrier at Cactus Club
Nothing jump-starts a new band’s career like a stellar pedigree, something Minneapolis’ Polica can surely attest to. With members from Roma Di Luna, Vampire Hands, Gayngs, and Bon Iver, the group has quickly shot to prominence on the strength of a few scattered songs alone. Good thing those songs live up to the hype: “Wandering Star” is a gauzy, strangely groovy track highlighted by singer Channy Casselle’s droning croon, while “Lay Your Cards Out” practically begs to become a future bedroom-sex mix-tape staple. The group is preparing its first full-length, Give You The Ghost, for physical release in early 2012. Milwaukee band Worrier has one foot in the crowded genre of danceable post-punk, with its prickly, hyper drums and basslines and weirdly yelped vocals, but there’s also something more delicate at work here. The band’s chirp-toned guitars, for one, help to lighten up these claustrophobic-feeling tunes with spaced-out melodies.
Cactus Club 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Nothing jump-starts a new band’s career like a stellar pedigree, something Minneapolis’ Polica can surely attest to. With members from Roma Di Luna, Vampire Hands, Gayngs, and Bon Iver, the group has quickly shot to prominence on the strength of a few scattered songs alone. Good thing those songs live up to the hype: “Wandering Star” is a gauzy, strangely groovy track highlighted by singer Channy Casselle’s droning croon, while “Lay Your Cards Out” practically begs to become a future bedroom-sex mix-tape staple. The group is preparing its first full-length, Give You The Ghost, for physical release in early 2012. Milwaukee band Worrier has one foot in the crowded genre of danceable post-punk, with its prickly, hyper drums and basslines and weirdly yelped vocals, but there’s also something more delicate at work here. The band’s chirp-toned guitars, for one, help to lighten up these claustrophobic-feeling tunes with spaced-out melodies.
Updated 04/24/2012
