Fri, Oct 30
Slow Pulp
Quiet bands are harder to love live, because the thing that makes them work on headphones is restraint, and restraint does not carry across a room full of people talking. The ones who survive the translation do it by getting louder than their records without getting bigger, which is a narrow trick and this band has it. The songs are about the specific exhaustion of your mid-twenties, when nothing is actually wrong and you are still tired, and the guitars are mixed to sound like weather rather than instruments. Outdoors helps. A container lot with the sky over it gives the slow parts somewhere to go instead of pressing them back into the crowd. Half five on Friday on Market Street, around $31. There is a steady run of bands in exactly this register coming through San Diego this season, and the people at the front of this one will be at most of them.
Quiet bands are harder to love live, because the thing that makes them work on headphones is restraint, and restraint does not carry across a room full of people talking. The ones who survive the translation do it by getting louder than their records without getting bigger, which is a narrow trick and this band has it. The songs are about the specific exhaustion of your mid-twenties, when nothing is actually wrong and you are still tired, and the guitars are mixed to sound like weather rather than instruments. Outdoors helps. A container lot with the sky over it gives the slow parts somewhere to go instead of pressing them back into the crowd. Half five on Friday on Market Street, around $31. There is a steady run of bands in exactly this register coming through San Diego this season, and the people at the front of this one will be at most of them.
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Quiet bands are harder to love live, because the thing that makes them work on headphones is restraint, and restraint does not carry across a room full of people talking. The ones who survive the translation do it by getting louder than their records without getting bigger, which is a narrow trick and this band has it. The songs are about the specific exhaustion of your mid-twenties, when nothing is actually wrong and you are still tired, and the guitars are mixed to sound like weather rather than instruments. Outdoors helps. A container lot with the sky over it gives the slow parts somewhere to go instead of pressing them back into the crowd. Half five on Friday on Market Street, around $31. There is a steady run of bands in exactly this register coming through San Diego this season, and the people at the front of this one will be at most of them.
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