Providence Phoenix previews the Why?/Dark Dark Dark Show!
from http://thephoenix.com/Providence/Picks/
INDIE RAP, INDIE FOLK
“Even though I haven’t seen you in years/yours is a funeral I’d fly to from anywhere,” sings WHY? on the new Alopecia (Anticon). The Cincinnati MC and his crew fly left of rap a la Buck 65, and make the keenly visual rhymes-songs resound with a short story writer’s poetic sense of narrative: “I feel like a loop of the last eight frames of film/before a slow-motion Lee Harvey Oswald gets shot in the gut and killed.” I’d previously only glossed by their stuff, but the new disc stops you dead in your tracks every once in a while — call it a mix of Soul Coughing and Flobots. They’ll do it live at Club Hell, 73 Richmond Street, Providence. Sharing the bill is DARK, DARK, DARK, a Minneapolis indie outfit that manages to conflate the Balkans and Americana (thanks accordion! thanks banjo!) to concoct a roughhouse version of pomo-folk that has a certain swagger. Nona Marie Invie was hopping trains and Marshall LaCount was floating down the Mississippi right before they connected. En route to New Orleans, they got serious about making songs together. The result is The Snow Magic (Blood Onion/SAD Music). It’s worth a spin or two.
Tags: dark dark dark, providence, the snow magic, why?
