The Echo & Echoplex (Venue Partner)
Echo - 1822 Sunset Blvd
Echoplex - Enter at 1154 Glendale Blvd
213.413.8200
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low vs diamond @ echo
- When
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Wednesday Nov 4, 2009 (8:30pm)
- Where
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- Price
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$10 advance / $12 day of show
- Links
Low Vs. Diamond || Listen || Watch
The band, made up of five members from five different big American cities, seem to be kind of like these characters, once they've sorted out their personality conflicts, bringing to their songs very stable matter and also enabling it to be interpreted in a way that are completely alive and pulsating all over the place. Oddly enough, Field resembles The Killers' Brandon Flowers, at times in his vocal delivery, and one tries hard to denounce any sort of suppositions or leaps of definition, but the sound of it - on this self-titled debut - could be exactly what the currently wayward Vegas band were intending when they wrote "Sam's Town." This is twistedly how they would have liked it to have sounded - with the punch in the gut of blue-collar American life rolling by the eyes of all those hard-working people who've never known them in mirrors without the rings under them, people who might not be getting all of the happiness out of their lives that they'd dreamed up so long ago, but the hardship is holding off fairly well and that's an accomplishment unto itself. It's a point in a life's soundtrack when there's no need for synthetic sounds - just real piano, real fucking guitar and real, chill-inducing words that settle us into a recounting of a life that ticks loudly, with its triumphs, with its failures and grievances, with its unsustainable pace. Field sings, "Time can't stop the soul/I became the void you couldn't know," during the tune "Song We Sang Away" and it's an idea - the first part about the resiliency of the soul - that is at the heart of everything the band makes and that unknowable void is what makes it all as enthralling as it is. - Daytrotter
with:
Melee || Listen
8:30pm / $10 advance, $12 day of show / 18+
