The Bowery Presents (Venue Partner)
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Wednesday Sep 29, 2010 (7pm)
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- Price
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$22 advance / $25 day of show
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“Now we’re born again,” sings Zach Rogue on the closing track of Rogue Wave’s fourth studio album, Permalight.
The dreamy acoustic lament lasts just over a minute but in sound and spirit it neatly sums up everything that comes before it. A punchy, deceptively effervescent set of multi-instrumental pop tunes, the Northern California band’s latest set represents a giant breakthrough for Rogue and his longtime musical partner, drummer-keyboardist-vocalist Pat Spurgeon.
“The record sounds, for lack of a better word, fun,” the frontman says.
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Midlake stays ahead of its own time by making music that transcends it. The Denton, Texas band's 2006 release The Trials of Van Occupanther, an inspired set of woozy, psychedelic pastoral rock, got fans and bloggers re-evaluating dormant ancestors like Fleetwood Mac, America, Crosby Stills, Nash and Young and Bread-music that has been embedded in the indie world's unconscious (Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear) ever since. On their third album, The Courage of Others, Midlake are still themselves and yet completely reinvented, so much so that between the time they started working on the record and the time they finished it, the title track was re-recorded down to every note, simply because they'd turned into a more ambitious band, with new influences both classic and contemporary, from British folk to Russian cinema. 'It didn't sound like us anymore,' says frontman/songwriter Tim Smith. 'There was a lot of, 'check out this idea,' and 'let's get more into this kind of vibe.' Plus we were getting a lot better musically.'
