Monday, October 5, 2009
Cream Calendar Dan Deacon Tonight at The End
Posted by Steve Haruch on Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:08 AM
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Did you know someone edited Dan Deacon's Wikipedia page so that it referred to him as a " 'musician' and hipster"? (Don't worry, it's been edited.) Our own Adam Gold may or may not have asked Deacon about that in his interview, and Deacon may or may not have been amused. Either way, D.D. brings his fleet of overlapping noises to The End tonight for a show that's bound to get sweaty and feature material from the Baltimorean's latest, Bromst.
Throughout the record, Deacon's pitch-shifted voice gets layered on top of itself hundreds of times over, producing a mirage of community. Shimmering flutters of glockenspiel, piano and other instruments, synthetically manipulated to produce notes at a rate well beyond what is humanly possible, make it sound like the community is dancing on broken glass, at tempos determined by what sounds like a fleet of helicopters. In what space is left--almost none--a symphony of analog synthesizers pulsates. The result is a dense, melodic cacophony of lush synth-pop that--while at times vigorously infectious and dramatically emotional--never lets up in its 64-minute run time, save for the Bulgarian choral interlude "Wet Wings." Even on the ethereal instrumental "Slow With Horns / Run for Your Life" Deacon can't help but run amok with clamor by song's end.
Read the full story here. Daniel Pujol opens.
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