Local Music is Sexy Band Profile: Belaire

Today we bring you the fourth band in our "Local Music is Sexy" Austinist + Trojan rock show/dance-party, happening this Saturday at the Velvet Spade:

In the Discerning Confectioner's Cookbook for Delectable Indie Pop, the recipe for Austin's Belaire might read something like this: combine one part Parisian lounge act, two parts low-key drum backings, a drizzle of guitar intonations, and a generous dollop of ever-so-refined synth grooves, and flambé! In their case, the food analogy seems perfectly apt - one can't help but want to eat their music up.

Their recordings are a delicious mélange of tandem synthesizers and delicate guitar riffs, anchored by subdued drum beats and airy harmonies - exactly the sort of pop music meant to accompany a summer's evening spent with friends on one's balcony. Seeing them play live, one can't help but detect the subtlest nuance of sexual tension, both in their songs and the way they sway, oh-so-lithely. At least that's what our, uhm, friends observe.

Unconscionable Freudian fantasies aside, this waifish quartet - don't be fooled by their gentle frames and altogether unassuming demeanors - possess the uncanny ability to wholly absorb both the stage and their audience during their spirited sets. They radiate the sort of nouvelle chic pop energy that just might compel even the most stalwart of hipster snobs to tap their Puma-sheathed toes.

Were those your buttocks we just saw shift in rhythmic unison? We thought as much.

Belaire - Cari Palazzolo, Christa Palazzolo, Matt Simon, and Jason Chronis - are fourth up in our Local Music is Sexy lineup. They'll be playing after Peel, The Interest Kills, and Visitors, and followed by The Black Angels. Be there.

[myspace: Belaire]
[Belaire Website]

Photos by Juice.