Lineup: Phelan Lavelle, Adam Bewley, Will Donaldson. Featuring Members Of: Bird Names, Mouser, Paper Tanks, Trunk Druids, CCR Headcleaner, Better People, Insane Inside Him. Influences: weed, the deep web, swimming pools, trance, generosity of spirit.
“Shade found us on Craigslist: ‘band4mw,'” S H A D E tells Flagpole in a typically obfuscating fashion. The three folks that make up this new local post-punk outfit have all done time in other, weirder bands; S H A D E is practically a pop group compared to some of them. Will Donaldson’s chugging fuzz-bass and Adam Bewley’s skeletal, pulsating drumbeats back guitarist Phelan Lavelle’s expressive, melodic vocal work.
Still, the grand tradition of esoterica plays no small role in the band’s music; underneath the druggy, dance-inducing exteriors lies a very No New York noise-rock bent. The beauty of the band is its blending of the two. S H A D E recently played its first-ever show in a dank, house party basement; the group’s wild, propulsive music might well sound equally at home on a thunderously speaker-ed stage in front of hundreds.
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