Blog | 75ORLESS RECORDS

Monument Thief at March Arts House

with Boycott and Cordelia’s Dad

Marsh Arts House
Amherst College
81 Lessey St
Amherst, MA 01002
7:30pm

Tall Teenagers at Dusk

with The Worried, Benny Sizzler, & Supernatural ii

Dusk
Harris Ave
Providence, RI
9pm

Swampbirds CD Release Show at The Parlour

with The Low Cards, Consuelos Revenge, The Fates

The Parlour
North Main Street
Providence, RI
9pm

The Blood Moons Reunion at Pour Farm

with Silent Fields & Jimmy Goo

Pour Farm
Purchase St
New Bedford, Mass
9pm

Motif Magazine reviews Hope Anchor’s ‘Beautiful Corpses’

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Hope Anchor – Beautiful Corpses

In terms of getting into the Halloween spirit, it doesn’t get any better than going to the release show for an album called Beautiful Corpses. Hope Anchor guitarist Terry Linehan warned me a few months ago that this would be their goth record. First impressions of Beautiful Corpses are that it does have a noticeably darker and urgent feel. “You Alone” kicks off with an ’80s U2-styled guitar riff before pulling the indie rock curtains over the beat. “Dead Gone” is another slab of indie rock that reminds me of some descendant of Echo & the Bunnymen and Wire. All good goth albums need a ballad and the dreamy “Rain Won’t Stop” fits the bill for a shot of indie guitar melancholy.

Hope Anchor, Jets Can’t Land, Ghosts of Industry, and Man & Wife rock Dusk on October 20.

Jodie Treloar at Villa Villekulla

with Nate Cozzolino and Jenn Lombari

Villa Villekulla
Providence, RI
7pm

The Noise reviews Keith A/B’s ‘Unbridled Optimism’

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Keith A/B – Unbridled Optimism

6 tracks

Innovative textures and instrumentals are matched to quirky vocal melodies to form some intriguing songs by this solo performer; some of which verge on epic, notably the opening track “We’ll Send Our Sympathies,” which is supported by relentless rhythm guitar and a positively eerie horn-like refrain. The tumultuous churning in the back of “Your Mother Needs a Man” fails to completely obliterate the rather sweet, almost poppy vocal melody delivered with a degree of intensity which creates an interesting sensation of dissonance, literal and cognitive. “Capital S” is instrumentally deliberately jarring and angular, with over-miked guitar thrumming layered in back of Keith A/B’s almost sing-songy vocal melody. (Think Patsy Cline’s version of “Tennessee Waltz.”) The end result is an almost nightmarish ambiance, as the vocalist ominously declaims “You will tremble/ You will tremble/ You will tremble like a leaf.” Of the remaining songs, the repetitive “An Hour a Day” seems like a misfire; “Fortune Cookies” is a brazen, poppy rock song but otherwise not particularly innovative; “One Bad Egg” is an anodyne wistful ballad. But the first three songs are strange and wonderful. Recommended.