Monday, January 23, 2006
Posted at
03:13
by
Carly Carioli
Trafficking in those familiar broody, moody vocals, reverb-and-delay-drenched guitar lines, and dance-dance-y drums, Birmingham’s EDITORS have drawn comparisons to the usual post-gothpunk suspects, both past (Joy Division) and present (Interpol). No surprise here: the NME faithful across the pond going bananas, and Stereogum says the NY show was ridonculous the other night. All that and their 2005 debut, The Back Room (Kitchenware), certified gold in Great Britain, won't land stateside until April. The band make the last stop of their first US tour at Fenway Recordings Sessions #11, a series that's replaced the Paradise as the joint to catch the debut of the UK's sensation-of-the-moment (see: Magic Numbers, the Subways, Hard-Fi, etc). Opening: New York’s the Twenty Twos, who also played Sessions #10, and DJ Carbo (Fenway honcho Mark Kates) spins between bands. Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston. 617.734.4502.
LISTEN: Editors, "Fingers in the Factories" (mp3, via Stereogum)
LISTEN: Editors, "Camera" (mp3, via underrated blog)
You know them as the gene splicers turned laptop genies who made a Bjork record -- and whom, in a creepy analogue to the work of her hubby Matthew Barney, make art that sits at the intersection of cold science and hot flesh. MATMOS once made an album entirely from sampling and re-editing the sounds of liposuction, and everything from human hair and skulls to latex fetish clothing and amplified crayfish nerve tissue has figured in their collaborations with the likes of the Kronos Quartet and the Melvins, installations at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and their own albums. There's a new Matmos disc scheduled for Spring -- The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast -- but their label hasn't heard it yet, and even the Matador dudes are at a loss to say what'll transpire when M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel pow-wow with Brooklyn's So Percussion for the kickoff of the Museum of Fine Arts' kick-assic spring indie-rock season (which is brought to you, as always, by your pals at the Boston Phoenix). Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston 7:30 pm $20 617.369.3306.
