*SOLD OUT* Sextile / Snõõper

Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+SEXTILESome bands find their groove and stick to it while others choose to reinvent themselves and keep on moving. Sextile can attest to the thrill of an ever-changing road map. The LA duo comprising Melissa Scaduto and Brady Keehn ply their trade with a lust for life and a love of everything from no wave to hardstyle, having merged some of these influences on their striking 2023 debut for Sacred Bones, Push.The groups new LP, yes, please., fuses anarchic electro fire with raw personal recollections and enough beefed-up bass to bust a speaker or two. yes, please. is an album of contrasts: a vulnerable record that bares its soul as much as it revels in excess, showing just how far you can push your sound when you shake off your inhibitions. Together, the pair betray a confidence that never wavers, making a bold splash on the speedy intro with a rave siren cut from a 00s New York house party. Seemingly by the same token, the unruly spirit of electroclash stalks the yes, please. building, flashing its ID on the cowbell-peppered thunderbolts of Freak Eyes and Rearrange, and turning in a scuzzy dancefloor bomb with Women Respond to Bass. High on endorphins, Push-upswhich features vocals from Jehnny Bethis pure muscle music, fortified by hoover bass and fleshed out by synths that hammer as hard as lumps of hail on a glass roof.Scaduto, who grew up in New York, and the Virginia-raised Keehn originally met in NYC before relocating to LA and forming Sextile. In 2015, they were joined by guitarist and synth player Eddie Wuebben, embracing occult-inspired post-punk for their debut album A Thousand Hands (2015), amping up the synths for 2017 follow-up Albeit Living, and leaning into this further for 2018s electronically minded EP 3. Sextile went on hiatus following a difficult period marked by the tragic passing of Wuebben in October 2019. They later re-emerged with former bassist Cameron Michel on guitar and synths and released the Modern Weekend / Contortion single in 2022.SNOOPERSnooper was thinking about pressure. Blair Tramel and Connor Cummins co-masterminds of Snooper had become fascinated by hydraulic press YouTube videos, watching object after object spin and contort before getting flattened. Their heads, too, spun from everything that had gone on during Snoopers early years. Tramel could relate to the videos, but for the poignance of a difficult transformation, not the defeat of total compression. Theres a sweet spot, she says. For a moment, push and pull create this beautiful dance.Over the past few years, Snooper has rocketed from Nashville DIY scene stalwarts to widespread adoration in the international underground music scene. The project evolved well beyond anything Tramel and Cummins had originally imagined, and faster than they could track resulting in disorientation as much as exhilaration. Tramel and Cummins channeled all that energy into writing new material. Their new album, Worldwide, extends directly from the festering punk the band first made their name on, but documents Snooper becoming bolder, catchier, and more confident.

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