Indie dance-pop outfit STRFKR is stopping in Athens on tour for its newest release, 2024’s Parallel Realms. On this record the Portland-based four-piece leans into a more pop-forward mode with touches of the same experimentalism found on its previous release, the 2020 instrumental album Ambient 1. In an interview with Inlander, member Joshua Hodges says, “It feels like the most STRFKR album to me… We kind of just went with whatever felt good moment to moment. We didn’t have a name until the very end. The name is like a relationship between two points of consciousness. It’s like reality is iridescent, and if you change the perspective just a little bit, that reality completely changes.” The band first began over a decade ago as the solo project of Hodges, but soon grew to include Keil Corcoran, Shawn Glassford and Arian Jalali, a lineup that has produced over a dozen albums together since the late 2000s. STRFKR will be joined by psychedelic pop bands Valgur and happy sad face.
WHO: STRFKR
WHEN: Wednesday, Apr. 16, 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show)
WHERE: Georgia Theatre
HOW MUCH: $25
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