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Honey Locust EP Release feat. Cuddle Magic & Paper Lantern
Price: $5
Chamber pop has come a distance since the days of such classics of the style as Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle and The Beach Boys’ Smile. These days, bands that reference that very ’60s style of pop use strings, background voices and woodwinds, just like the old days. Still, the approach has been altered by the influence of such ’90s bands as Gastr del Sol and Tortoise. Formed by students at the New England Conservatory of Music, Cuddle Magic is a sextet operating in the vicinity of Parks and Tortoise, with Akron/Family and Ray Riposa’s art-damaged folk project, Castanets, lurking in the woods. Their 2011 full-length release Info Nympho contains such free-for-all pop as “Moby Dickless,” which floats along on a Casio riff, complete with rough-and-ready vocal harmonies and artfully managed tempo shifts. It’s warm, friendly music, with plenty of texture indeed. —Edd Hurt
There are more prefixes and permutations surrounding the word “folk” these days than there are members of Arcade Fire, The Head and The Heart and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes put together, and local five-piece Honey Locust peppers their sound with all three of those bands, and then throws in some Beirut for good measure. An accordion and gothic harmonies add an orchestral, Eastern European edge to their new single “Fear is a Feeling,” off their upcoming EP of the same name. Live, they deliver plenty of foot stomping, instrumental pauses to let the vocals ring and attempts to break the horsehairs, plus guest appearances from just about every string instrument you can imagine (or at least purchase on Craigslist). Cuddle Magic and Paper Lanterns round out the bill. —Marissa R. Moss
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The High Watt
- 1 Cannery Row, Nashville Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End TN 37203
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615-251-3020
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