Islands
Magic, Miracles of Modern Science
Fri, September 14, 2012
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
Littlefield$15.00 - $18.00
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Islands - (Set time: 10:00 PM)
Acclaimed modernist pop band Islands released their new album A Sleep & A Forgetting February 14th via Anti-Records. While A Sleep & A Forgetting continues the band’s penchant for crafting adventuresome and infectious state of the art pop music, this time band leader Nick Thorburn has infused the songs with a personal introspection that gives the record a new and powerful emotional resonance.
“This album is far more personal than any I’ve made before,” Thorburn explains. “I left New York after the end of a relationship and came to Los Angeles. There was a piano where I was staying and that’s where I wrote these songs. This record deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming.”
Islands began in 2005, emerging from the ashes of Montreal pop sensations The Unicorns. In their previous incarnation, they had crafted a vibrant distinctly low-fi sound that quickly made them cult sensations. Popmatters heralded The Unicorn’s distinct style as, “genuinely great pop music that's experimental, catchy, and, most of all, weird” while Pitchfork called the trio’s sound as “totally natural and new.”
“This album is far more personal than any I’ve made before,” Thorburn explains. “I left New York after the end of a relationship and came to Los Angeles. There was a piano where I was staying and that’s where I wrote these songs. This record deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming.”
Islands began in 2005, emerging from the ashes of Montreal pop sensations The Unicorns. In their previous incarnation, they had crafted a vibrant distinctly low-fi sound that quickly made them cult sensations. Popmatters heralded The Unicorn’s distinct style as, “genuinely great pop music that's experimental, catchy, and, most of all, weird” while Pitchfork called the trio’s sound as “totally natural and new.”
Magic - (Set time: 9:00 PM)
Miracles of Modern Science - (Set time: 8:00 PM)
Miracles of Modern Science began life in 2004 as a sea-chantey-spouting string band at Princeton University, formed by orchestra dropouts and jazz band rejects. In 2005, they found a drummer and plugged their miniature orchestra into amps. Since then, their ecstatic live shows have been shaking hips with instruments grandma might have waltzed to.
The band pieced together their debut EP in dorm rooms and basements over the course of 2008. Its combination of post-rock explosions, anthemic pop vocals, and antique textures makes for a sound lost in time – this is how a Civil War string band might have imagined the music of the far-distant 1980s, or how Devo might have entertained at a Lincoln benefit. The EP, released as a free download, has garnered praise across the blogosphere.
Since moving to Brooklyn in the summer of 2008, Miracles of Modern Science have performed at packed venues ranging from Brooklyn DIY strongholds to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Buzz surrounding these performances earned Miracles of Modern Science spots among SPIN’s “25 Must-Hear Artists” at the 2009 CMJ Music Marathon and the Deli Magazine’s Best Bands of NYC 2010. Their summer 2010 residency at NYC’s Cake Shop was featured on Brooklyn Vegan, CMJ.com, and WNYC.
This is no string tribute to rock. This is MOMS.
The band pieced together their debut EP in dorm rooms and basements over the course of 2008. Its combination of post-rock explosions, anthemic pop vocals, and antique textures makes for a sound lost in time – this is how a Civil War string band might have imagined the music of the far-distant 1980s, or how Devo might have entertained at a Lincoln benefit. The EP, released as a free download, has garnered praise across the blogosphere.
Since moving to Brooklyn in the summer of 2008, Miracles of Modern Science have performed at packed venues ranging from Brooklyn DIY strongholds to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Buzz surrounding these performances earned Miracles of Modern Science spots among SPIN’s “25 Must-Hear Artists” at the 2009 CMJ Music Marathon and the Deli Magazine’s Best Bands of NYC 2010. Their summer 2010 residency at NYC’s Cake Shop was featured on Brooklyn Vegan, CMJ.com, and WNYC.
This is no string tribute to rock. This is MOMS.
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