the echo and echoplex

with:
Sam Sparro || Listen
Iglu & Hartly || Listen
Voxhaul Broadcast
The Chain Gang of 1974

plus HELL YA! DEEJAYS

8pm / FREE for 21+, $5 for under 21 / 18+

The Monolators || Listen
Because the Monolators are a guitar-&-drums duo, they get the usual White Stripes comparisons, but their sound is actually weirder and more expansive on their latest CD, Our Tears Have Wings. Singer-guitarist Eli Chartkoff has a uniquely mournful yelp that’s somewhere between the late Nikki Sudden and the Subsonics’ Clay Reed on the lo-fi gem “Strawberry Roan”. Drummer-wife Mary Chartkoff cooks up a neatly sinister groove on “We Fell Dead,” and keeps it all down home on the glowing roots-rocker “14 Degrees.” On the album’s title track, Eli portrays himself as a lion tamer’s son with playfully clever lyrics and starkly effective chords that evoke the unpretentious simplicity of his hero Buddy Holly. The L.A. duo even engage in a little Jonathan Richman–style whimsy on the folkie ramble “I Was a Captain in the Army,” with Eli’s timelessly iconic tremolo guitar waves washing away any hint of mere cutesiness. - LA Weekly

with:
Mezzanine Owls || Listen
Amateurs || Listen

8:30pm / $5 / 18+

with:
5 O’Clock Somewhere
Welldiggers Banquet
The Horsepainters

5pm / free / all ages

with:
I’ma F’cking Gymnast
Le Face

plus resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

10pm / $5 / 21+

with:
DJ Paul V
Mocean Worker

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $10 / 21+

Nu-tra || Listen
If you’re upset that Devo doesn’t play a local club gig every other week, cry no more, for there is Nu-Tra. Giving the word “devotees” an entirely new meaning, Nu-Tra (short for “New Traditionalists”) presents the most grandiose synth-punk show in town, complete with keytars, cheerleaders, screen projections, and matching spiffy jumpsuits. Go see them and you’ll swear that you’ve entered a time warp and traveled back to 1981…or forward into 2181. - Skratch Magazine

with:
Jean Paul Yamamoto
Criminal Decathlon

8:30pm / $5 / 18+

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

ENTER FROM GLENDALE

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

ENTER FROM GLENDALE

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $15 / 21+

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

ENTER FROM GLENDALE

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

ENTER FROM GLENDALE

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

ENTER FROM GLENDALE

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

ENTER FROM GLENDALE

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

ENTER FROM GLENDALE

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

ENTER FROM GLENDALE

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

Kinski || Listen
Down Below It’s Chaos doesn’t waste any time, saying emphatically from the very first attack in “Crybaby Blowout” that this record is going to pummel your skull in. However, it’s more than just an unending stream of distorted guitars and hard rock riffs, it’s more than just a consolidation of Kinski’s sound. The biggest change is the addition of J Mascis or Thurston Moore style vocals by guitarist Chris Martin on three of the tracks, “Passwords and Alcohol,” “Dayroom at Narita Int’l” and “Punching Goodbye Out Front.” Vocals are typically a problem for instrumental bands, forcing them to make their song structures more concrete, less complex, or generally less effective (case in point, Hella’s There’s No 666 in Outer Space or the last two Parts & Labor albums). But Kinski avoids this problem by limiting the number of songs with words and by using them to play around with form. - Dusted

with:
Dead Ponies
Unnatural Helpers || Listen

8:30pm / $8 adv, $10 dos / 18+

The Happy Hollows || Listen

“Los Angeles continues to breed killer new bands like some sort of musical rabbit farm. This three-piece litter of sweet sonic babies is known as the Happy Hollows, appropriate as it’s hard not to smile like an idiot when they commander a club stage. A spin through their “Bunnies and Bombs” EP reveals the power-puffy trio bashing out hyperactive power-pop with a serrated buzz-saw edge of noisy guitars and Pixie-fied beats. Songs like “Meteor” and “My Wet Tongue” bops with an abandon familiar with 1990s “college rock” before it gets swallowed up by all things “indie.” But the main attraction is super-fine lead singer/guitarist Sarah Negahdari, a woman after my own heart with her trademark striped tube socks and wild rock babe ways. We double dog dare you not to develop a mad crush on her after just one show. It’s nigh impossible. Resistance is futile.” - Metromix LA

with:
The Movies || Listen
Death To Anders || Listen
Lo-Fi Sugar

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

The Happy Hollows || Listen

“Los Angeles continues to breed killer new bands like some sort of musical rabbit farm. This three-piece litter of sweet sonic babies is known as the Happy Hollows, appropriate as it’s hard not to smile like an idiot when they commander a club stage. A spin through their “Bunnies and Bombs” EP reveals the power-puffy trio bashing out hyperactive power-pop with a serrated buzz-saw edge of noisy guitars and Pixie-fied beats. Songs like “Meteor” and “My Wet Tongue” bops with an abandon familiar with 1990s “college rock” before it gets swallowed up by all things “indie.” But the main attraction is super-fine lead singer/guitarist Sarah Negahdari, a woman after my own heart with her trademark striped tube socks and wild rock babe ways. We double dog dare you not to develop a mad crush on her after just one show. It’s nigh impossible. Resistance is futile.” - Metromix LA

with:
Le Switch || Listen
The May Fire || Listen
Rademacher || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

The Happy Hollows || Listen

“Los Angeles continues to breed killer new bands like some sort of musical rabbit farm. This three-piece litter of sweet sonic babies is known as the Happy Hollows, appropriate as it’s hard not to smile like an idiot when they commander a club stage. A spin through their “Bunnies and Bombs” EP reveals the power-puffy trio bashing out hyperactive power-pop with a serrated buzz-saw edge of noisy guitars and Pixie-fied beats. Songs like “Meteor” and “My Wet Tongue” bops with an abandon familiar with 1990s “college rock” before it gets swallowed up by all things “indie.” But the main attraction is super-fine lead singer/guitarist Sarah Negahdari, a woman after my own heart with her trademark striped tube socks and wild rock babe ways. We double dog dare you not to develop a mad crush on her after just one show. It’s nigh impossible. Resistance is futile.” - Metromix LA

with:
The Western States Motel || Listen
The Transmissions || Listen
Tigers Can Bite You || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

The Spires
Franklin For Short

Last time around, they were THE VELVET UNDERGROUND.
This time, THE SPIRES will be entirely themselves:
sparse, stripped down pop ala The Velvets, Galaxie
500, Beat Happening & early R.E.M. (though they have
promised to play one VU cover!). With fellow Ventura
County mates–who comprised the other half of last
April Fool’s Velvets–FRANKLIN FOR SHORT (see above
for applicable name-checking, ‘cept maybe more LUNA
than Galaxie 500…)

plus resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

10pm / $5 / 21+

Tony Gilkyson || Listen
The Evangenitals || Listen
Gentlemen Farmers
Fish in a Barrel

5pm / FREE / all ages

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

Dirty Projectors || Listen

“Get ready for the latest brain-bending concept record from Dirty Projectors: a re-interpretation– not cover versions, mind you– of much of Black Flag’s Damaged…played completely from memory. Ha ha, guys. Tell us more about Don Henley. If you can get past the gulf between this and the original (differences include the addition of: violins, African-style staccato plucking, throbbing funk bass, harmonized female vocals, low and overwhelming Gregorian-like chants, Hendrix style backwards guitar, reverse bass drum hits, and some placid guitar arpeggios), this is the kind of challenging but seductive pop that the more modern moments of The Getty Address only hinted at. What’s more, taking the lyrics out of context reveals an almost mature perspective on the numbing day-to-day, check-to-check grind of adult life. Black Flag’s take was angry and throttled, perfect in all it’s one-note glory; this call-and-response between singer Dave Longstreth and his chorus of sirens is a moment of self-discovery turned inside out, making nihilism into self-acceptance and excitement for the future. It’s the perfect soundtrack for shoveling a handful of mushrooms in your craw just before handing in your two-week notice.” - Pitchfork

with:
Yacht || Listen

@ The Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Main Entrance is Through the Alley

8pm / $10 / all ages

with:
Monsters Are Waiting || Listen
War Tapes

Plus Underground DJs

Spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

9:30pm / $10 adv, $12 dos til 11:30pm, then $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

10pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

10pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

With:
The Screening || Listen

Plus Underground DJs spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

10pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

with:
Thailand
Zookeeper

Plus Underground DJs spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

9pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

10pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

10pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

10pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Qui

“Typically noisy, unhinged and low-slung alt-rawk from Jesus Lizard man David Yow’s new project who are signed to Mike Patton’s Ipecac imprint and have an album, ‘Love’s Miracle’, forthcoming. Their idiosyncratic blend of punk, noise, metal and experimental genres, coupled with their advanced musical prowess, earned them a small but dedicated following throughout the U.S. In late 2006, Qui was joined by vocalist David Yow of The Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid fame.” – Time Out London

with:
Sabertooth Tiger || Listen
Lozen

9pm / $10adv, $12 dos / 18+

The Deadly Syndrome || Listen

“This hodgepodge of old and new friends began messing around, making noise in the guesthouse of a little ranch, and soon played their first “show” on the porch for some pals. Within months, they were appearing on bills with Silver Lake’s biggest bands (including Cold War Kids and Monsters Are Waiting) and had earned a reputation for explosively energetic live shows. The Deadly Syndrome presents with convulsive rhythm, feral drum bashing, modest guitar hooks and folky piano stitched between frank verse. The output is a hybrid of pop and folk likened to Wolf Parade and Built to Spill, and landed them a deal with L.A.-based Dim Mak records.” - LA Weekly

with:
The Morning Benders || Listen

7:30pm / FREE for 21+, $5 for under 21 / all ages

Earlimart and the String Dream Team || Listen

More than ever, Murray threw herself into the writing process and eventually dragged Espinoza back to the Ship. The result is Mentor Tormentor, a record that works hard from start to finish to achieve “classic.” And with its broad, sweeping string arrangements, the album is much more grandiose than anything Earlimart has done before.

As the title might suggest, Mentor is an ode to the duplicitous role our loved ones play in our lives. Fittingly, Ariana came up with it.
“I think it was a combination of all these ups and downs in the last couple of years,” explains Espinoza. “We’ve had some loss, and some people leave us, and some pretty disappointing friendships.”

Sonically, the album mirrors those same ups and downs, oscillating from revved-up rock songs about the failings of friendship (“Everyone Knows Everyone”) to autumnal piano ballads about separation and acceptance (“Don’t Think About Me”). - Filter Mag

with:
The Parson Red Heads || Listen
The Pity Party

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main entrance is through the alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $7 / 18+

The Broken West

They compensate for their somewhat geeky obsessiveness with confident songwriting, inventive arrangements, and verite production that emphasizes the band’s breakneck live energy, especially on “On the Bubble” and “Hale Sunrise”. Best of all is “Down in the Valley”, resurrected from their equally strong EP The Dutchman’s Gold, which they self-released in 2004 when the band was still know as the Brokedown. It’s a solid four minutes of churning guitars, fizzy harmonies, and insanely catchy melodies, anchored by a chorus that simultaneously plays into the city’s good-time vibe while slyly undercutting it: “Sun down, blood horizon, now it feels all right/ No one feels the darkness down in the valley tonight.” - Pitchfork

With:
The Parson Red Heads || Listen
Bodies of Water || Listen

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $10 / 18+

O’Death || Listen

“O’Death is more life than anything else, though the songwriting of Greg Jamie and Gabe Darling takes a more contemplative approach to back-alley country that gets freaky with folk and makes a collage of sound that sparkles like the prettiest knife. Jamie’s voice squeaks as a deranged mystics would, Pycior, bassist Grabby, drummer David Rodgers-Berry and banjo player Gabe Darling play as if possession has already occurred and their bodies aren’t being controlled by anyone except the dark spirits and their minions. They’re possessed and soon enough, there you are too, sweaty with lunacy. Jamie sings about human hearts that are filled with bats, as he chews past his dark brown beard like a billy goat. The band is full of authentic lightning and thunder clapping, dripping with a seediness that can only come from deep within. What they do cannot be cribbed or learned, but innate. For those of us who tend to our mundane lives as if there’s no other option, O’Death graciously present an alternative to clean living and sweet dreams. Their heavens piercing wails could cause turbulence for all the airplanes soaring up in the friendly skies and turn the unflappables pale as death with fear.” - Daytrotter

with:

Rock Plaza Central || Listen
Rock Plaza Central is an endearingly different sort of buzz band. Prior to all the unexpected acclaim and success following the self-release of their breakthrough record Are We Not Horses? in late 2006, the band had gone largely unnoticed outside their hometown of Toronto for several years. Sheltered from any attention, they unassumingly eased their way into something spectacular. Inspired by an elaborate conceit and sustained with evocative lyrics and powerful instrumentation, Are We Not Horses? is an outstanding fusion of alt-country earnestness and indie rock absurdity. Without any trace of flaunt or deliberateness, this homespun epic proves as casual in tone as it is ambitious in scope. - Popmatters

plus:
I Make This Sound || Listen

8:30pm / $8 / 18+

Bill Callahan || Listen

Since the lo-fi indie-rock band Smog has always been Bill Callahan and whomever he’s hanging out with at any given time, it may strike some as odd that Callahan has ditched the Smog moniker and released an album under his own name. But while Callahan’s Woke On A Whaleheart shares Smog’s rumbly tone and rootsy foundations, it is a bit of a departure. Consider “Diamond Dancer,” the best song on the album, and one of the standout rock tracks of 2007. Between the Euro-funky bass runs and sinister fiddles, “Diamond Dancer” comes off like mid-’70s David Bowie with a light country overlay. It’s downright visionary, and hardly Smoggy. Elsewhere, Callahan evokes John Cale and Lou Reed, with relaxed, nasal singing on pop-folk ballads like “Sycamore” and “Day.” And he takes a weird spin through the call-and-response gospel tradition by feeding himself his own lines on “The Wheel” and “A Man Needs A Woman Or A Man To Be A Man.” - The Onion AV Club

with:
Sir Richard Bishop || Listen

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $15 adv, $17 dos / 18+

Thurston Moore

“Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore is one of the coolest dudes alive. He’s heard everything, he knows everyone, and there’s simply no getting around the fact that he’s been an expert witness to just about every major movement in rock music throughout the past thirty years. And rather than rest on his body of work, Thurston continues to push boundaries, continuing to put out great albums with Sonic Youth, engage in various side gigs, and run his record label, Ecstatic Peace.

Moore has a busy summer ahead, and not only due to an expansive tour peppered with performances of Sonic Youth’s 1988 classic Daydream Nation (including one such run-through at our Pitchfork Music Festival). He’s also getting ready for the September 18 release of a solo album on Ecstatic Peace, titled Trees Outside the Academy.” - Pitchfork

with:
Scores (Featuring Christina Carter and Heather Leigh Murray)

8:30pm / $18adv, $20 dos / 18+

Calvin Harris || Listen
BM LINX || Listen

Plus DJs Larry * Mark * Dia

Spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

9pm / $8 / 18+

Sister Nancy

Plus Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $10 / 18+

UNKLE || Listen

“Relying on stoner and glam rock arrangements, albeit with the kind of beautifully nocturnal tinges UNKLE are known for, the album is a cool headed blitzkrieg of guitar worship and jackbooted beats. From the repetitive dance floor pound of “Restless” (with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme) to the acoustic gallop of “Burn My Shadow” (with Ian Astbury), War Stories is the perfect soundtrack to the coming apocalypse.” - URB

with:
Goon Moon (featuring Chris Goss)

9pm / $18 / 18+

Yo Majesty

“‘Daaaamn!’ That’s all we can say when we listen to the rap riot that is Yo Majesty, three freaky Florida femmes with rhymes spicier than Salt -N-Pepa and bombastic beats that’d make J.J. Fad proud (eat your humps out, Fergie). This old-school girl trio may be naughty — check out the choppy synth bobs and bossy braggadocio of “Kryptonite Pussy” and “Hustle Mode” — but the fierce delivery makes it come off fresh, never forced.” - LA Weekly

with:
Von Iva || Listen (CD Release Party)

8pm / $12 / 18+

The Advantage || Listen

The Advantage, of course, represent the most literal faction of this phenomenon, with their four-piece instrumental rock covers of assorted level themes and boss music. Far from being the only band practicing this approach (see also: the Minibosses, the Power-Ups, NESkimos, etc.), they’re nevertheless the NES translators with the most star-power, featuring one half of Hella and assorted other noise-scene moonlighters. But where some practitioners of 8-bit revival coast along on kitsch, the Advantage do more than just tickle your retro bone– an, erm, advantage that was hinted at on their self-titled 2004 platter and is brought to full realization here on the cutely-named Elf-Titled.

Substantially upgrading the fidelity, and stepping away from the more obvious titles they’ve already covered– your Marios, Zeldas, and Bubble Bobbles– Elf-Titled is more stylistically explorative than their reflective, scrapbooky debut. Game composers designed music that was meant to loop infinitely without growing tiresome too quickly, resulting in brilliantly complex, maze-like melodies that the Advantage are all too happy to make their own. With guitars executing tightly choreographed, noodly maneuvers through songs like Bomberman 2’s “Wiggy” or the music from the “Metal Man” stage of Mega Man 2, the band amps up the originals to reveal the songs as more than just background jingles. - Pitchfork

with:
Them Hills
Abe Vigoda

8pm / $8 / all ages

Boris
The past 12 months have been increasingly kind to louder and more challenging artists, but even if Sunn0))) hadn’t droned onto discerning hipsters’ iPods, it’s not difficult to imagine the awesomeness of Pink– a supremely well-paced rock’n'roll album that’s quickly winning over even long-suffering metalphobes– helping these Japanese veterans leap-frog indie kids into a New York Times Arts & Leisure mention. If you don’t believe me, sneak a listen to the spaced-out seven-minute opener, which manages to combine the best elements of classic British shoegaze and Sigur Rós with bliss-out metal faves Jesu and Isis. Just don’t bank on the rest of the album to follow in its footsteps. After all, the three folks behind it– guitarist Wata, bassist/vocalist Takeshi, and drumming vocalist Atsuo– are the same atom-smashers who nicked their named from a Melvins song, operate the Walmart-friendly Fangs Anal Satan record label, and downshift from blown-out Motörhead to Earth on a dime. They’ve collaborated thrice with Merzbow, worshipped amplifiers with multitasking experimental rock legend Keiji Haino, and chilled with noise legend Masonna. Put simply, they’re too restless (and ambitious) to fixate on a single style. - Pitchfork

and:
Damon & Naomi with Kurihara
Oren Ambarchi

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

7pm / $15 adv, $17 dos / all ages

with:
The Chromatics (members of Glass Candy)
New Collapse

Can’t wait for this one! For fans of Suicide, Metal Urbain, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Crawling Chaos, Plus Instruments. . .
Definitely not for the twee kids, this one! Unless yer into trepanation, electroshock therapy and general self-mutilation. . .

plus resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

10pm / $5 / 21+

Handsome Furs

“An album that sounds far bigger than its minimal constituent parts might imply from on-paper confines – each song is crafted using guitar, synthesizers and a primitive drum machine – Plague Park is far closer to the bedazzling indie-rock of Wolf Parade than the chuck-everything-in approach of companion side-project Sunset Rubdown. With the Parade’s Dan Boeckner at the helm, this LP can be summarised, succinctly, as a stripped-back take on the often epic tendencies of the celebrated Montréal act; its appeal is instant, and that voice serves as a sturdy bridge between bands. Listen closer, though, and great rewards await those with patience to burn.” - Drowned in Sound

with:
Johnny and the Moon
Nico Stai || Listen