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Autolux

This Will Destroy You / Oberhofer

Venue:
The Bowery Ballroom
Date:
Thu 8/26
Notes:
18+
Doors: 8:00 PM / Show: 9:00 PM
$15
Tickets
Autolux
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Autolux are a three piece band consisting of Eugene Goreshter, Carla Azar, and Greg Edwards. Since they formed and began playing shows in early 2000, Autolux has gained much critical acclaim and respect on either side of the atlantic.
Autolux lives somewhere between nonconventional means and outer space. Lush, sonic meltdowns with melodies and lyrics that set themselves up for the long haul - vacillating between economy and experimentation, hybrid and rock classicism. Their first album, Future Perfect, was released on DMZ/Columbia in October 2004. DMZ was created by musician/producer T-Bone Burnett and the Coen Brothers. Shortly after signing the band, Burnett also took on the role as producer. Edwards describes his influences while working on Future Perfect -- "The sound of old elevators, an iron fence on a windy hill in Texas, the Doppler effect, and the geographical acumen of Peter Sellers."

After touring incessantly on Future Perfect, the band took a long break before diving into writing for their second full-length, Transit Transit.

Keeping themselves busy, Autolux teamed up with UNKLE on a song for the album War Stories, composed music for an exhibit at The Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles, called "Sonic Scenery", performed on Nigel Godrich's tv series From The Basement, and traveled to Russia to open for PJ Harvey. In February of 2008, Carla went into the studio with PJ Harvey and John Parish to play drums on their latest record, A Woman A Man Walked By.
Autolux recorded and produced the long overdue Transit Transit themselves and it is expected to come out later this year.
This Will Destroy You
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Oberhofer
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"When your songs are too big to be contained: Form a band! Maybe call it after your family name because you like the way it sounds (shit, if it worked for Bon Jovi then who’s to argue). Record those songs in the basement of your parents house in Tacoma. When that burns down, shake it off and move to New York. Find a new band to play with, start working on a symphony (no really, do it), mix your newfound formal training with the noisy exuberance of youth. Get raucous!"

There's nervousness in his voice-- bolstered by ramshackle guitars and a sugar-rushed drum beat that build to an inescapably joyous climax-- but instead of conveying dread, Oberhofer sounds like he's expressing the kind of happy, life-affirming jitters you get when waiting on line for a roller coaster - Pitchfork

"Oberhofer combines the delicately layered shouts of Animal Collective, the drugged-out guitarwork of Real Estate, and the thrashy percussions of The Dodos" Flavorpill

"Despite the kaleidoscopic whirl, there's an emphasis on straightforward lyrics; it's almost as if he's a 19-year-old kid who started writing music as a competitive freestyle rapper in the fifth grade, recently moved to New York after his family home in Tacoma burned down, and has songs bursting to get out of him." L Magazine: 8 NYC Bands You Need To Hear

"Oberhofer make engaging indie rock à la Surfer Blood; they are spastic—with yelping screams and screeches reminiscent of bird calls (or Ezra Koenig), accompanied by loud, clashing drums and guitars, and softer instruments like toy piano and glockenspiel." Beyond Race Magazine

"Oberhofer specialises in deliriously catchy, lo-fi guitar pop that somehow manages to mix youthful exuberance, that slacker "yeah, like whatever" attitude, with a weirdly accelerated neurosis. Think Weezer but with less sexual angst" Dazed And Confused
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