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July 03, 2007
Neon Lights: Thrushes
The top of Friday night's Neon Lights bill features not one but two stellar bands traveling in from exotic lands. The shoegaze sweethearts known as Thrushes come to us from the faraway wilds of Baltimore. Their debut album, Sun Come Undone, has been circling on selective stereos from Brooklyn to Beijing since Spring, but in case you need a sampler...
The gross indifference and tragic haircut of Brad Pitt's lame movie brother hardly deserve the tribute given by Anna Conner's honeydew vocals, let alone the sturdy beat and gentle instrumental swoon that frames it at the song's onset. "You've given up on me," she tells our Irish-American idol, before Casey Harvey's protective guitar squeals spring to her defense. He backs off for another minute or so, allowing Conner to be beautifully alone with the reality of her Quinn buyer's remorse, which morphs finally into disembodied "oohs," over rhythm inching towards a gallop. White noise in sheets, like sparks from cut metal, rain down on the track's final seconds, leaving Aidan's actual transgression sweetly mysterious.
You may think that you don't have room in your actual blood box for another song called "Heartbeats," but it's not like you have a choice in the matter. When word leaked that Jesus and Mary Chain's Reid Brothers would be recording an album with their little sister, this is the sound of the collective daydream that followed. Idolator said that, "anyone who has fond memories of 4AD will be all over this." I do, and I am. I have faith that the assembled masses will quickly agree. There's a temptation to call them the night's sleeper pick, if they hadn't gotten a lot more of that sort of high-quality attention.
That aforementioned more:
- Because rarely, only rarely, the NME can be kind of cool, you can vote Thrushes as an "NME Breaking Band" by going here.
Hype dealers of the domestic variety:
Baltimore City Paper
Largehearted Boy
Obscure Sound
Instrumental Analysis
Off the Record Magazine
and for our thriving Cantonese readership...
the Little Strawberry Planet
You can buy tickets right now to see Thrushes, along with El Jezel, Mancino, and De Novo Dahl, by going to the Ticketweb page located here.
Posted by Jeff Klingman at July 3, 2007 09:30 PM
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