Guitar pop from Brisbane that got enormous in Southeast Asia and Latin America while remaining a cult concern in the United States is a genuinely odd career shape, and it produces American shows where a meaningful part of the room has flown or driven a long way. The songs are bright, intricate, built on interlocking guitar lines rather than power chords, and they have aged into something people associate with a specific stretch of their twenties. The band has kept the same core for well over a decade. Out in a high desert saloon with a wooden floor and a patio full of people between sets, the whole thing takes on a character no city club would give it. Music at 9:30 PM in Pioneertown, a Friday. Half the pleasure of a booking like this is finding out who else in your area has been quietly following a band nobody around you has heard of.
Guitar pop from Brisbane that got enormous in Southeast Asia and Latin America while remaining a cult concern in the United States is a genuinely odd career shape, and it produces American shows where a meaningful part of the room has flown or driven a long way. The songs are bright, intricate, built on interlocking guitar lines rather than power chords, and they have aged into something people associate with a specific stretch of their twenties. The band has kept the same core for well over a decade. Out in a high desert saloon with a wooden floor and a patio full of people between sets, the whole thing takes on a character no city club would give it. Music at 9:30 PM in Pioneertown, a Friday. Half the pleasure of a booking like this is finding out who else in your area has been quietly following a band nobody around you has heard of.
Guitar pop from Brisbane that got enormous in Southeast Asia and Latin America while remaining a cult concern in the United States is a genuinely odd career shape, and it produces American shows where a meaningful part of the room has flown or driven a long way. The songs are bright, intricate, built on interlocking guitar lines rather than power chords, and they have aged into something people associate with a specific stretch of their twenties. The band has kept the same core for well over a decade. Out in a high desert saloon with a wooden floor and a patio full of people between sets, the whole thing takes on a character no city club would give it. Music at 9:30 PM in Pioneertown, a Friday. Half the pleasure of a booking like this is finding out who else in your area has been quietly following a band nobody around you has heard of.