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Music
Caribou

When

Thursday Apr 24, 2008 (8pm)

Where
El Rey (5515 Wilshire Blvd, 323.936.6400)
Price
$17
Details
http://www.theelrey.com/view-details.php?id=142
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Noise isn't supposed to be this pretty. Sure, My Bloody Valentine, Jesu, and a whole mess of pedal-pushers have shown that's not necessarily true, but Fuck Buttons take the concept to a whole new stratosphere. "Bright Tomorrow" had the blogs beside themselves — a simple, shimmering keyboard melody that boils over into a Yellow Swans-ish barrage of screams and hiss — while early reports on their debut, Street Horrrsing, confirm that the tune was no fluke. Before the Buttons hammer out their ugly/pretty catharsis, Dan Snaith's Caribou (formerly Manitoba) play it just plain pretty. Last year's Andorra was a return to form, all crystalline songwriting and sunshiny instrumentation.

Stephen Gossett