The Bowery Presents upcoming shows
St. Vincent
Pattern is Movement
- Venue:
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- Date:
- Wed 5/20
- Notes:
- 18+
- Doors: 8:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM
- $15 adv / $18
- St. Vincent
- official website
- myspace
- St. Vincent is the band of singer-multi-instrumentalist, Annie Clark. The 23- year old is a veteran guitarist for two musical armies, The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Steven's touring band. Marry Me, St. Vincent's debut record, will be available on Beggars Banquet July 2007.
On Marry Me we see a smartly crafted deluge of guitar, bass, and beats pulsing forward with warmth and immediacy alongside Annie's classy soprano. Her lyrics can be weird or tongue-in-cheek or dead serious, capturing verily what it feels like to be 23 years old in America and caught up in the delirium of love blues and wartime blues and the various swashbuckling adventures of existence.
Horns and strings cry out brassy and full-bodied over digital keyboards. Songs rock out vigorously, break down into squiggling post-noise-rock deconstructions, roll out mellow and slow-flowing as a river. Backing harmonies and kiddie choirs loom in the distance, rise, and lilt above the stately grandiosity. And she keeps good company. David Bowie's longtime pianist Mike Garson shows up on two songs, as does Brian Teasley from Man or Astro-man but, mostly, it's just Annie, a multi-instrumentalist for a new era. - Artist Direct
- Pattern is Movement
- official website
- myspace
- Andrew Thiboldeaux and Chris Ward embody Pattern is Movement and the music that's been a long time building, rising out of the ether of evangelical childhoods, best friendship, and life in Philadelphia. The two met at the ages of 13 and 14 --- as part of a Christian hip hop group. Raised in strict Pentecostal households and schools (see Jesus Camp), both Andrew and Chris found refuge in their shared love for Dr. Dre's The Chronic --- and a friendship born out of secular escape turned into a creative collaboration. In high school, hand-me-down church sound equipment and a weekend obsession with making and recording music provided the means for what became Pattern is Movement.
"All Together," their fourth album, continues the mysterious narrative of the band and it exalts their existence as a two-man wall of sound. The pounding energy of their live show --- with Chris and Andrew side-by-side, simultaneously hammering their instruments, sweat flying --- resides in ten exquisitely constructed tracks. In the studio (Scott Solter's), every idea was given its voice; a range of guest instruments embellished the core magic of Andrew's vocals and keys and Chris' drums. All Together embraces the vocabulary of the band's experienced and obsessive recording language, yet it holds on to that unmistakable dynamism of their live performance.
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