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Seven years (yup, it’s really been that long) since first coming to sub-culture prominence for their prodigious, homemade hip-hop delusions, San Francisco’s Restiform Bodies are finally reuniting and releasing their Anticon debut. And, yeah, I’m sure they had their reasons for taking their sweet fucking time, but c’mon: what a huge tease for fans of the Bodies and their rich psychedelic oeuvre. However sonically delinquent and unapologetically lo-fi they might have seemed, they were so widely loved because they actually were really good. Ahead of their time, even. Passage’s lyrics were confessional abstractions uttered with the innocence of a child; Bomarr’s beats were upbeat and sometimes discothèque; and Telephone Jim Jesus introduced absurdist samples and sound elements that were the antithesis of hype. Spun together, it was an anarchist’s carnival of musical disregard, the proverbial thumbing of the nose to big time America.

“Bobby Trendy Addendum” is the blazing, synth-heavy first single from that long-awaited LP, TV Loves You Back. Unlike their earlier material, this is a hi-fi affair that forefronts their signature layers of lazer-warped, bass-heavy synths; tinny drums and bass loops are left in the background as rhythmic supports instead of carrying the entire track through to some illogical conclusion. Yet, despite the formalist influences of each member’s solo work, this is generally still the same party that we left a while back. – CokeMachineGlow

with:
We Are The World
Disruption

7pm / $10 / all ages

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