Music
Oxford Collapse
- When
Wednesday July 2, 2008 (8:30pm)
- Where
- Southpaw (125 5th Ave, 718.230.0236)
- Price
- $12
- Details
- http://www.spsounds.com/index.html
- After a few albums of post-punk manqué, Brooklyn trio Oxford Collapse shattered expectations with 2006's Remember the Night Parties. Sounding more Chapel Hill circa '95 than '01 Williamsburg, their Sub Pop debut keeps the rhythm section fractured, while the knotted Polvo guitars and Archers of Loaf yelping are pure out-of-step ebullience. Producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.) brightens the corners by adding some C86 jangle, ending up with a handful of "Slack Motherf*cker"-worthy indie anthems. In the Double Nickels/Zen Arcade tradition of admirable over-extension, a new double album is due out in August. Meanwhile, Glaswegians Frightened Rabbit bring the kind of sweet, scrappy pop of which Scotland has a thankfully everlasting supply. – Stephen Gossett
