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SIC ALPS
DOM KELLER
Monday 6th October, 8.30pm
Bunkers Hill, Nottingham
£4 adv from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/34702

SIC ALPS
Sic Alps are a duo from San Francisco, and according to the press release from Siltbreeze, their fourth album is “the virtual brick of Berlin/Big Sur hash we’ve all been waiting for. Well, yeah. More prosaically, “US EZ” sounds like a garage rock band who vacillate stylishly between not giving a damn about audio fidelity and aestheticising the fuzz, and one who are really attuned to an idea of psychedelia that can be at once vague and crunchy. Of the reference points that Jon gave me, the one that seems most salient to me is Guided By Voices; specifically, I reckon, that early ‘90s phase that produced “Propeller” and “Vampire On Titus”. You can hear it most pronouncedly on the muffled beat-group clatter of “Mater”, which echoes Robert Pollard’s most primitive Who fantasies. “Massive Place” is a distorted second-cousin to the Black Lips’ brat garage, and once or twice, Sic Alps slope into a disintegrating noise jam. Mostly, though, they’re surprisingly stealthy. Some of the stumbling beats, artfully dazed playing, and general self-aware dissolution might be a turn-off for a few of you. But the songs are great, and the treatments are genuinely bracing and charming. I’m reminded of Julian Cope in his bedroom freak/whimsy mode (“Skellington”, “Droolian” I suppose), and not just because the title of “Gelly Roll Gum Drop” calls to mind “Jellypop Perky Jean”. I also, repeatedly, think of Skip Spence’s “Oar” when I play “US EZ”, especially on “CO/CA”, “Sing Song Waitress” and “Everywhere, There”. The fragmentary vibes might be self-conscious rather than psychologically inevitable, but there’s no need to suffer for your art when you can make a record as twisted, fun, as entertainingly wrecked as this one. - Jon Mulvey, Uncut
http://www.sicalps.com/

DOM KELLER
If Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and Kawabata Makoto went to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party then Dom Keller would be the house band. Psychedelic garage rock blues bastardization straight from outer space. http://www.myspace.com/domkeller

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Friday 24th October, 8.30pm
The Art Organisation, Nottingham
£tbc

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CHRIS BROKAW
SAVOY GRAND
Sunday 9th November, 8.30pm
Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
£7 adv from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/34375

HUMAN HAIR
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Saturday 22nd November, 10pm (late start after Jay Reatard)
The Chameleon, Nottingham
£tbc

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