After the blast of snow storm on Monday and the impending deep freeze for the rest of the week, I decided to take advantage of the lull on Tuesday for a quiet evening of music at The Burdock. Catholic Wilt aka Jesse James Laderoute (Blonde Elvis) played highly distorted somber music, his voice drenched in reverb. It was a hit and miss set for me. Queen of Swords (Aerin Fogel) had elliptical and metaphorical music. I would have liked a purely acoustic set between her and Kritty Uranowski because the simple backing tracks with their generic beats and chords didn't add much. The night ended with loom featuring Brooke Manning, Kyla Charter, and Leah Fay (July Talk). Over simple chord changes, they layered harmonies that interwove, swelled, and stretched. Manning's poetical lyrics had deceptive power. She should consider moving a little away from rhymes toward the partial free verse of Tamara Lindeman (The Weather Station), just to give her compositions more space. Their set ended with Crowded House's Don't Dream It's Over, made more "poignant" (in Manning's words) given the world today as opposed to when she used to cover it back in the late aughts.
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