NEON INDIAN / VISIONS OF TREES / DAM MANTLE
Thursday 20th May, 2010
CAMP Basement (City Arts and Music Project)
70-74 City Road, London, EC1Y 2BJ
7.30pm / £7.50
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This is the first show we're running at an exciting new venue CAMP basement next to Old St station on the City Road - a one-off special London show for Neon Indian.
A formerly elusive project from composer Alan Palomo. Neon Indian delivers equal parts synthetic nostalgia, dreampop lullabies, and grinding guitar noise to create something eerier than the sum of its parts. Forged after a hazy winter gathering in Texas, this initial batch of tracks were the result of field recordings, record samples, a collection of bizarre synth sounds. Orbiting around the themes of drug induced heartbreak, weary afternoons, and lost chances, this music provides a lush soundtrack to the deadbeat exploits of teenage ennui. Debut LP "Psychic Charms" was released in the States in October to widespread critical acclaim, and as recently as March this year, buzz-detector site Hype Machine heralded the band the number one most blogged band on the net. Full of what's been dubbed a new "chillwave" sound, the songs on Pyschic Charms combine waves of Kevin Shields's soft dream-like sounds and vocals with squelchy Chromeo beats and italo-disco meets Prince dance grooves, all condensed into pop songs equally at home in the record collections of indie-rock fans and mainsteam radio listeners in equal measures. In songs like "Deadbeat Summer" and "Terminally Chill" Palomo has accrued both a dedicated fanbase and proved himself to be some of the most exciting and fresh new acts around. This date sees an eagerly anticipated return to the UK for a one-off show.
www.myspace.com/neonindian
New London duo Visions Of Trees have been turning heads a-plenty with their spaced-out sci-fi pop.. A recent US EP release and tour with Memory House and other high profile support slots with the likes of Bear In Heaven under their belts, Visions of Trees' songs push beautiful melody through washes of sprawling electronics. Reminscent of everything from Kraftwerk to High Places, with a distant Bronski Beat reference here or there, these two are very much at the fore of what's fast becoming the soundtrack to the heady sunny days of 2010.
http://www.myspace.com/visionsoftrees
Known to his family and friends as Tom Marshall - Dam Mantle is a fresh young innovator from Glasgow making progressive electronic sounds to make you cry, move erratically or smile a mile wide. Live he's joined by another and has recently wrapped up a tour with fellow new music compatriot Gold Panda. Mantle’s glitchy “poems” seem to want to bridge the gap between the usual alienation of electronic music and the mainstream pop music of yore – y’know, when pop songs actually MEANT something.(Line Of Best Fit). Dam Mantle, seems to embrace an amiably all-over-the-map compositional style, EP cut "Rebong" is an exceptionally groovy slice of glitch-hop, with a harp sample not unlike something Flying Lotus would use. (Pitchfork)
www.myspace.com/dammantle
The venue is very close to OLD St station on City Road. It's below and part of a great new bar / cafe called City Arts and Music project.
Tickets are available at wegottickets.co.uk and ticketweb.co.uk
