Note: The Lena Bartels show has been relocated to Second Floor Recording Co. All proceeds from the show will go toward Nashville Mutual Aid.
Léna Bartels’ September album The Brightest Silver Fish dwells in dualities. With a push-and-pull between intensity and softness, the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Portland, Ore., musician threads dreamlike textures with sardonic alt-rock wit, suggesting Aimee Mann or Nina Nastasia with lulling, blithely morbid lyrics. It’s a sound that pairs perfectly with her current tour mate, southwest Virginia artist Ian Hatcher-Williams, whose ambient folk project Lamplight roots the subconscious in the domestic. His 2024 self-titled album centers on his move into a Roanoke farmhouse and the meaning of home more broadly, with nods to Broken Social Scene and Duster. On Friday, the pair’s Southern run comes to Drkmttr, where they’ll play a cozy winter’s night with Billy Campbell’s noise-rock project Make Yourself at Home and “Nashville slow-whatever” act Off to Sleep.
8 p.m. at Second Floor Recording Co.
1111 Dickerson Pike
