FRICTION @ Cake Shop w/ Crystal Stilts, Tickley Feather, PWRFL Power, Rings | 6.29.08

Posted: June 11th, 2008 | Author: justin | Filed under: FRICTION, events, music, nyc | No Comments »

After a brief stint in Brooklyn, FRICTION returns to the borough that gave the monthly series birth with its first show at the recently-turned-three, Cake Shop. Playing their unique brand of gloomy, yet catchy and upbeat surf-inspired tunes, Brooklyn’s Crystal Stilts headline this show, supported by fellow Brooklynites and Paw Tracks signees, Rings, along with PWRFL Power, who recently made the move to the popular borough from Seattle, where he swooned many a heart. Philadelphia’s mysterious Tickley Feather rounds out the lineup, bringing her lo-fi blend of psychy bedroom pop to the shop. Anicet is back spinning between sets.

Tickets are just 7 bucks and available at the doors, which open at 8pm the night of the show. Well thought out press blurbs, really skinny pictures, mp3′s, and the flyer (designed by Andy McEntee) are all below.

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These are weird pop songs you clap your hands along to. CRYSTAL STILTS pile a rockabilly riff and nursery school melodies onto a revved-up bass line and sweet surfy 60s organ riff on top of minimalist percussion. [Pitchfork]
[MP3]: “Crippled Croon”

Using her voice and some lo-fi keyboards, TICKLEY FEATHER is able to tap into the same gauzy electronic warmth as Beach House, but on a rougher, bargain-basement level. This gives her license to indulge in some left-field weirdness…a few of the interludes and outros here sound as if they could’ve fallen off of a Creel Pone release, but rather than distract, the excursions contribute to the intoxicating atmosphere. [Dusted]
[MP3]: “Fancy Walking”

PWRFL POWER‘s music is an unconventional marriage of melodically rich, Fahey-styled acoustic virtuosity and conversational, knowingly naive lyrical abandon…which manages to transcend the potentially cloying confines of its subject matter. [The Stranger]
[MP3]: “Alma Song”

RINGS play an off-kilter brand of experimental psych-folk, not unlike Animal Collective, but with a touch of baroque melancholy. Rings more than just connect with the Paw Tracks family on a genetic level, they seem to share a similar approach, that being one of defying norms and going against everything you know about pop music, and still coming out with something musical and even, at times, beautiful. [Treble]
[MP3]: “Is He Handsome”

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