It’s a collage of stuff we like, on a day that we love. Happy day-before-Saturday folks because TOMORROW the good people at Boston Hassle are presenting a Muddy Wires album release show at Out of The Blue Too Gallery. Other acts include O. Jelly, Audrey Harrer, and a Dinners + Skinny Bones collab, which will take the stripped down and accurate name “Jake + Jimmy” for the night.
Fitting to the venue, the night should make for it’s own genre of show experience, less like a set of sets and more like audio painting. That’s just my prediction, but here’s why:
Muddy Wires is one of those artists at which “abstract” is too lame a descriptor. Call it “cool” or “a weird kinda groovy,” but I think the experimental project runs too wild for any label to stick. Appropriate to its name, Muddy Wires produces a sound swelling with enough murky electricity to cut through a comfort zone artistically. Any Memory Leak track will tell you this. Any still-attached ear will agree.
Genre? For now I’ll leave the door of subjectivity open and just call it “electro-idontknow.”
For some pre-show appreciation, check out the full three-part album here!
‘Though vastly different, O. Jelly and Audrey Harrer should provide a night’s worth of fluidity on their own. O. Jelly’s intricately sculpted “Repair Kit” is so continuos it almost challenges a held breath through the tunnel-of-a-song…which is physically unhealthy, but figuratively exhilarating.
As for Harrer, her harp, and the soaring voice that she’ll expectedly paint across the gallery, well, they’re all the definition of legato. She’s smooth and orchestral and above the traditional downbeat. If Harrer’s performance is even a fraction of her recorded elegance, you might just be inspired enough to pick up that old violin of yours, start playing “Ode to Joy,” get frustrated over the fact that you can’t remember the end of “Ode to Joy,” and SMASH THE DIRTY THING.
Put it on a table. Art (or something).
And then there’ll be the MUCH anticipated combo of fellow folktronics Dinnersss and Skinny Bones. Dinnersss’s stripped down remix of “Blue Hills” acts as audio proof that the brush strokes of both artists fit together to create something novel. It’s not a “better together” situation but rather a “new as one” team-up. The remix, ‘though deriving from bands both known and loved, plays aside as a Jake and Jimmy original. Come for the collab. Stay for the first-time fandom.
So keep your weekend inspired, or at least make it “a comment” on something by hitting up Out of the Blue Too Gallery tomorrow night. And bring you chin. You’ll have plenty of reasons to stroke it.
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