Cafe du Nord
2170 Market St
415.861.5016
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Frog Eyes
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Friday June 6, 2008 (9:30pm)
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- Price
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$12 / $10 advance
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Offering an uncompromising counterpoint to Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown's erratic pop exorcisms, British Columbia's Frog Eyes are an indie-rock success story that doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense. Singer Carey Mercer yelps more than croons, violently contorting his words in a series of self-inflicted seizures. Perhaps it's this embrace of unencumbered emotion — more than any kind of immediate aesthetic accessibility — that so endears the group to the straight-and-narrow scene. Drenched in echoing guitar and counterpointed with sparse drum fills, his songs are awash in the same unmitigated emotion as early Xiu Xiu; but where Xiu Xiu turn to poppy electronics to ingratiate themselves, Mercer sticks to honest, no-frills angst.
