Farewell February, I barely noticed you, — save for the snow, the sleet, the grayness. Man, just a blurring of gray days, bland pearl skies and hazy curtains, fogs of flakes obfuscating the roads ahead…
Gray…
Gray Bouchard just wrote me and sent a song along. Just in time, too. He and Melissa Coppola make up Match By Match, one of the area’s finest brands of inherently warming, sunburst baroque pop – charmed with cascading pianos, buzzing guitar riffs rustled over these revving rhythms that slalom away from being overly saccharine-pop stuff whilst also not being too overly showy or anthemic. This is the nice little jam that rattles the keys above the gear shift of your salt-shrouded compact and coaxes you forth down the escapist avenue out of WinterTown and off towards the calendar-ahead, the warmer months, a call from the Spring-that’s-just-about-to-bloom…
www.matchbymatch.com
March 1st – Match By Match @ Woodruff’s –with: Hand In The Ocean and the Finer Things – 10 pm – 36 E. Cross St – woodruffsbar.com
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Do baby horses go to heaven? I’ll be the encyclopedia knows… (“Pony Modifications”)
Oh, their voices intertwine so melodiously, yet Patrick Elkins and Chelsea Jordan are not presenting your typical pop-fare. Sweetly toned incantations, so pretty in so strange a way; these experimentalists are singing about Ponies by means of fluorescent lullabies sparking faint luminescence through felicitous and freaky dreamscapes. Yeah, Pills In My Pocket will likely veer, just a bit, off and away from the frothier folk-rock earworms of a Match By Match or a Hand In The Ocean. These longtime musical collaborators tend to hike off the main trails and into knottier compositional terrains…(see: Rainbow Vomit Family Band).
What treasures are sutured into these mystical anti-folk ruminations? Ypsi’s experimental-pop auteur Fred Thomas captured and prepared these ditties for your investigative ears. You can hear them tomorrow (Feb 27th), presented on cassette and CD via Toothless Eyeball & Positive Vibes Forever at Encore Records in Ann Arbor.
What else this week? What else?
I’ve been rocking this:
http:// soundcloud.com/patrick-elkins
Bring on March.
