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Sleepcomesdown
Also Playing: Brute Heart and Falcon Arrow and Paper Wasp
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Fri Jan 4
9 pm
Sleepcomesdown, Brute Heart, Falcon Arrow, and Paper Wasp at Riverwest Public House
The ominous cool of Sonic Youth and Unwound is an easy ploy for a band to hide behind, and so is the circuit-stabbing experimentation of Health and Black Dice. To merge the two takes a little more dedication, and surprisingly doesn’t mean getting swallowed whole in pretension, at least for Milwaukee-via-Kenosha band Sleepcomesdown. As clearly as these influences come through, they also inspire the group to expand and revise its palette of textural gadgets and reverb-laden effects with each song. On 2008’s Vapor Kicks EP, Sleepcomesdown tries to tweak and frizz out its well-orchestrated static of electronics and sinister vocals, filling “Visual Tactics” with throbs and drones, and covering Bruce Springsteen’s “State Trooper.”
Riverwest Public House 815 E. Locust St., Milwaukee, WI
The ominous cool of Sonic Youth and Unwound is an easy ploy for a band to hide behind, and so is the circuit-stabbing experimentation of Health and Black Dice. To merge the two takes a little more dedication, and surprisingly doesn’t mean getting swallowed whole in pretension, at least for Milwaukee-via-Kenosha band Sleepcomesdown. As clearly as these influences come through, they also inspire the group to expand and revise its palette of textural gadgets and reverb-laden effects with each song. On 2008’s Vapor Kicks EP, Sleepcomesdown tries to tweak and frizz out its well-orchestrated static of electronics and sinister vocals, filling “Visual Tactics” with throbs and drones, and covering Bruce Springsteen’s “State Trooper.”
Updated 02/06/2013
