Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Tonight Also Tonight in Music: Flexions
Posted by Eric Grandy on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:07 PM
In this week's issue, Dave Segal profiles Flexions, the dark dub punk duo of Past Lives guitarist Devin Welch and photographer/musician Robin Stein:
A month and a half after forming, Flexions cut a 7-inch single that reflected their burgeoning psych and dub proclivities, and then in May issued Leisure Time, an eight-track EP available on vinyl and MP3 via the Journal of Popular Noise. Tracks like "Fetal Horses" (not to be confused with John Vanderslice's song of the same title, both of which draw from Oliver Sacks's Musicophilia), "Leisure Time," and "Underneath the Bank" exude a vital tension. Welch's guitar slashes at unexpected angles and clangs and ripples with a fluid intensity like some combination of Television's Tom Verlaine and Gang of Four's Andy Gill, though he declares Sonic Youth and the Slits' Viv Albertine to be a bigger inspiration. ("I like people who are amateurish but doing really creative things within their skill level.")
Flexions play the Comet tonight, 8pm, $6, 21+, with the Present & Queens and Sockai Stilhed.
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