Elvis' Record Release at Trailer Space [Show Preview]
Friday, April 22
Trailer Space (1401 Rosewood Ave # A)
7pm
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There's a kind of mystique about Elvis, or, at least, what qualifies as mystique these days. The local four-piece has no web presence save a barren MySpace, though in the last couple of years they've made themselves known in more important circles, namely the Red River punk scene and Gerard Cosloy's Casual Victim Pile compilation. The track that appeared on that (reluctantly) scene-defining document, "Mommy's Little Soldiers", is a hellish psychedelic trip, Hunter S. Brian's incantory vocals sounding out like a spell over a murky guitar line maxed out on reverb and treble. The track is representative of the noisy post-punk on their 2009 self-released debut album, Heavily Decorated, which manages to combine the spare atmospherics and vocal stylings of Joy Division with the droning dissonance of Suicide to create a terror-shot, acid-fried psychedelic sound. A Ralph Steadman drawing would not have been out of place as the cover art.
Elvis is playing at local punk incubator Trailer Space Records tonight to celebrate their new album, about which there is no information to be found. In the words of Hunter S. Thompson, you'll have to buy the ticket and take the ride yourself. Also playing are Nouns, a local duo influenced by 50s skiffle, doo-wop and blues rock in equal parts, and Manikin, who our own Paige Maguire described as the "bastard love child" of a resurrected Big Black and early Sonic Youth.
Elvis: [myspace]
The Nouns: [myspace]
Manikin: [myspace] [official]
