Music: Rock/Pop
Russian Circles
- When
Saturday July 5, 2008 (7 & 10:30pm)
- Where
- Schubas (3159 N Southport Ave, 773.525.2508)
- Price
- $12
- Details
- http://www.schubas.com/calendar.aspx?month=7
- In the years since Simon Reynolds coined the once-helpful term, "post-rock" has come to envelop nearly any band with rock instrumentation sans vocals playing in a non-rock context. Like Tortoise and Pelican, fellow Chicago instrumentalists Russian Circles have that cross to bear. While their mathy prog-punk certainly has elements of Don Caballero, it also features the twitch-and-burn catharsis of Fugazi and Drive Like Jehu. The loud/quiet dynamic is familiar, but such a level of precision and intensity is hard to find. Hyphenated rock-crit speak aside, Russian Circles just, you know, rock. – Stephen Gossett
