Music recorded so quietly that you have to lean toward it is doing something deliberate — it makes the listener come to the song rather than the other way around. This duo has built a substantial following on exactly that, slow tempos, buried vocals, guitar that sounds like it was recorded in a stairwell. They came out of the same eastside Los Angeles apartment-recording world that produced a lot of the current wave and have stayed at a scale where the shows still feel like a secret. Live it is louder than expected and the low end does most of the emotional work. Highland Park's upstairs hall on a Wednesday in December, wood floors, a few hundred people. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56. Bands who stay this size on purpose build audiences who feel responsible for them, and the room reflects it.
Music recorded so quietly that you have to lean toward it is doing something deliberate — it makes the listener come to the song rather than the other way around. This duo has built a substantial following on exactly that, slow tempos, buried vocals, guitar that sounds like it was recorded in a stairwell. They came out of the same eastside Los Angeles apartment-recording world that produced a lot of the current wave and have stayed at a scale where the shows still feel like a secret. Live it is louder than expected and the low end does most of the emotional work. Highland Park's upstairs hall on a Wednesday in December, wood floors, a few hundred people. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56. Bands who stay this size on purpose build audiences who feel responsible for them, and the room reflects it.
Music recorded so quietly that you have to lean toward it is doing something deliberate — it makes the listener come to the song rather than the other way around. This duo has built a substantial following on exactly that, slow tempos, buried vocals, guitar that sounds like it was recorded in a stairwell. They came out of the same eastside Los Angeles apartment-recording world that produced a lot of the current wave and have stayed at a scale where the shows still feel like a secret. Live it is louder than expected and the low end does most of the emotional work. Highland Park's upstairs hall on a Wednesday in December, wood floors, a few hundred people. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56. Bands who stay this size on purpose build audiences who feel responsible for them, and the room reflects it.