FRICTION @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | 6.8.08 w/ These New Puritans, School of Seven Bells, Effi Briest

Posted: June 3rd, 2008 | Author: justin | Filed under: FRICTION, dub, events, music, post-punk, psych | No Comments »

GET HYPE!    Southend, UK’s These New Puritans are bringing their trance-inducing post-punk across the pond in their first U.S. tour, which includes a stop in Brooklyn to play FRICTION at Music Hall of Williamsburg! The show also marks the quartet’s New York City debut. Two of Brooklyn’s most ambitious bands, the futuristic psych trio School of Seven Bells and the mystical dub wielding Effi Briest, round out the bill. Brooklyn, by way of DC, by way of France, Anicet, spins between sets.

Tix available now / Doors @ 8pm / flyer, mp3s & more below

Balancing staccato rhythms and itchy guitars with a neat line in woozy, trance-like synthesisers, THESE NEW PURITANS have an oblique lyrical bent that’s all their own. [Uncut]
[MP3]: “Elvis”

SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS, founded by ex-Secret Machines guitarist Ben Curtis and featuring twin-sister singers Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, slipped easily between epochs – medieval polyphony, laptop sorcery, the rhythmic turmoil of Public Image Ltd.’s 1981 album, Flowers of Romance – with smart hooks and the Dehezas’ alluring vocals, liberally greased with reverb. [Rolling Stone]
[MP3]: “Chain”

There’s sorcery afoot in EFFI BRIEST‘S primitive droning psychedelia and hypnotic post-punk clatter. Like Yeasayer, Dirty Projectors, and MGMT, Effi Briest are reason to celebrate the casting-off of New York’s skinny jeaned shackles. They’re a willfully wonky NYC troupe making music that’s way off the typical spectrum of CBGB heritage-punk. Signed to Loog in the UK, fans of The Horrors’ occult will find plenty to enjoy in their strange incantations. [NME]
[MP3]: “Mirror Rim”

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