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Blonde Redhead Announce New Album Sit Down for Dinner, 2023 Tour Dates

Marking their first studio album since 2014

Blonde Redhead are back with Sit Down for Dinner , their first new album since 2014. Out September 29th, the LP features the lead single, “Snowman,” and will be supported by a tour of North America, the UK, and Europe.

Sit Down for Dinner was written over a five-year period in locations spanning from New York City and upstate New York to Milan and Tuscany. The album’s lyrics address the inescapable struggles of adulthood, whether it’s a communication breakdown, wondering which way to turn, or holding onto your dreams.

Band member Kazu Makino found inspiration for the album from a passage in Joan Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking , that resonated with the uncertainty of the early pandemic months and the temporarily lost ritual of eating dinner with her parents far away in Japan: “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”

At the same time, the group — made up of Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace — has long placed importance on the meal while rehearsing or on tour. “I know a lot of people eat and run, eat in front of their TV, or don’t care about it too much — and that’s OK — but we really do,” explained Simone in a statement. “It’s a moment for us to sit down and have time with each other.”

The lead single, “Snowman,” is evidence of Blonde Redhead’s shared connection, as Amedeo’s voice seamlessly floats over a groove inspired by Brazilian experimental music. As Amedeo explained, the track is about “how it can be a blessing or a curse to be invisible and undetectable, and how it’s something we all feel and desire at times.” Stream it below.

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Blonde Redhead will back Sit Down for Dinner with a Fall 2023 tour. Kicking off on October 16th in San Francisco, it includes stops in Chicago, Brooklyn, DC, and beyond. The trek will immediately be preceded by a series of special dinners with the band that will only be available via an exclusive bundle . See their full touring schedule below.

Tickets go on sale Friday, June 2nd at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster . Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Sit Down for Dinner marks the proper follow-up to 2014’s  Barragán , and pre-orders are ongoing. In 2017, Blonde Redhead released an EP titled 3 O’Clock .

Sit Down for Dinner Artwork:

Sit Down for Dinner Tracklist: 01. Snowman 02. Kiss Her Kiss Her 03. Not for Me 04. Melody Experiment 05. Rest of Her Life 06. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 1 07. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 2 08. I Thought You Should Know 09. Before 10. If 11. Via Savona

Blonde Redhead 2023 Tour Dates: 06/02 – McGill, NV @ Schellraiser Music Festival 06/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon 06/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right 07/20 – London, UK @ The Lexington 08/31 – Ogden, UT @ Ogden Amphitheater * 09/23 – Paris, FR @ Montezuma Cafe # 09/25 – London, UK @ Brilliant Corners # 09/28 – New York, NY @ Public Records # 10/01 – Los Angeles, CA @ Chainsaw # 10/16 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall 10/18 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre 10/20 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom 10/21 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall 10/24 – Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre 10/25 – Sante Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf 10/27 – Austin, TX @ TBA 10/28 – Dallas, TX @ Studio at The Factory 10/30 – St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar and Hall 10/31 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall 11/02 – Toronto, ON @ TBA 11/03 – Montreal, QC @ Le Studio TD 11/04 – Somerville, MA @ Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre 11/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 11/09 – Washington, DC @ Howard Theatre 11/10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel 11/20 – Genève, CH @ PTR L’Usine 11/21 – Parma, IT @ Teatro Regio di Parma 11/23 – Cologne, DE @ Gebaude 9 11/24 – Berlin, DE @ Hole 44 11/25 – Hamburg, DE @ Bahnhof Pauli 11/27 – Lille, FR @ Aeronef 11/28 – Paris, FR @ La Cigale 11/29 – Nantes, FR @ Stereolux 12/01 – Rennes, FR @ Antipode 12/02 – La Rochelle, FR @ La Sirene 12/03 – Toulouse, FR @ Le Bikini 12/05 – Brussels, BE @ Orangerie (at Botanique) 12/06 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso 12/07 – Leffinge, BE @ De Zwerver 12/09 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club 12/10 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla 12/12 – London, UK @ Village Underground

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‘The hate and contempt are as strong as the love’: alt band Blonde Redhead on their twisted bond

The New York group – one of the very best in the US – are back with their first album in nine years. Here, the trio reveal how infighting, illness and anxiety almost destroyed them

S it Down for Dinner, a record of deftly anxious songs about loss, is among Blonde Redhead’s finest work. In many respects, this is remarkable, given the new record comes after an absence of almost a decade – and after Kazu Makino thought she had “walked away from the band for ever”.

The experience of self-releasing the band’s 2014 album, Barragán, had left the singer and guitarist “decimated, financially and physically”, while long-simmering tensions between Makino and her bandmates, the twin brothers Amedeo (guitar and vocals) and Simone Pace (drums), had grown intolerable. “I kept asking myself: ‘Do I always have to suffer to make music?’”

But when Amedeo became seriously ill and was hospitalised this summer with Lyme disease and a malaria-like infection called babeosis , Makino “truly panicked – I don’t think I would have a life without him”.

We are talking in July at the hotel in London where Makino is staying. Blonde Redhead were supposed to play this evening, but the gig was cancelled due to Amedeo’s illness. He will soon recover, but Makino has her absent bandmate on her mind. While their connection is impossibly deep, it’s also complex. “The twins are like real family,” she says. “The hate and contempt [between us] are as strong as the love. I can’t even talk to them sometimes.”

They met in New York in the early 90s. Makino had fled Kyoto, specifically her parents’ attempts to “sabotage” her musical ambitions: “I wouldn’t be stopped.” The Pace twins were born and raised in Italy and studied jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston before relocating to New York, where they held down a regular gig at a restaurant and nightclub.

A mutual friend thought the trio should play together, remembers Amedeo via a video call alongside Simone later in the summer. “But Kazu was worried about being in a band with twins.” Amedeo, meanwhile, was anxious they wouldn’t find common ground. “I loved jazz and wanted to improvise; Simone was immersed in Brazilian music. And Kazu had her own rebel ideas, influenced by My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth . I abandoned everything I learned in school and began playing in alternate tunings.”

Their early squall was indebted to Sonic Youth (whose drummer, Steve Shelley, released Blonde Redhead’s first two albums on his label Smells Like), but the interplay between Makino’s razorwire rasp and Amedeo’s melancholic croon sounded like nothing else. They were outsiders in a scene of outsiders. “Us being Italian, and Kazu Japanese, we felt pretty foreign to everything,” says Amedeo.

Indeed, they spent their early career in fear that they might be deported, a constant anxiety that left its own impression (they had moved to the US on student visas). “I’m fine now,” Makino says. “I keep hearing about white Americans living in fear, because soon there will be more black people than white people in America. And I want to tell them: it’s really liberating to be a minority. Because when nobody wants you, you are truly free.”

The intensity with which they pursued their music also set them apart. Makino remembers crying in frustration at every rehearsal “because I felt inadequate”, while Amedeo blames their inability to keep a bassist on their failure to find a fourth member who “could stand our chemistry”.

It didn’t help that Amedeo and Makino were lovers; their on/off relationship spanned the group’s first decade or so. “It wasn’t easy for them,” says Simone. “They lived together, so there was no escape. Lots of fights, lots of emotion. We even tried therapy, all three of us, to figure out a healthier way to deal with each other.”

Amedeo adds: “We’d spend so much time together, at practice and at home. It was great for the music, but we’d fight at rehearsal, then come home pissed off and be upset for days.”

This friction bled into Blonde Redhead’s music. Their chaotic and captivating third album, 1997’s Fake Can Be Just As Good, opened with Kazuality, Amedeo’s ode to their all-engulfing relationship (“Timeless fire that burns / Me to you, you to me”), while on stage the pair often seemed on the brink of combat, parrying guitar necks and colliding into each other. “It wasn’t an act,” Makino says. “We fought all the time. It was dreadful.”

They dialled back the aural melee, beginning with 1998’s In an Expression of the Inexpressible, the first of three albums produced by Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto. “Slightly higher budgets meant we could spend more than three days recording an album,” says Simone. “We wanted to use strings, to show more beauty in the music.” They found new power in restraint, broadening their palette with primal influences they had previously “repressed with noise”.

Amedeo says: “I remember our mum playing classical and jazz organ records that affected me a lot. They were dark, sad and very harmonically beautiful.”

Those words perfectly describe 2004’s Misery Is a Butterfly. Its production had been delayed after Makino, a keen equestrian, sustained horrific injuries when she was trampled by her horse. “The accident destroyed my jaw,” she remembers. “I was laid out for so long. My mouth was wired shut – I couldn’t sing. I told Ame: ‘You should sing my songs instead.’” But he refused and, as they waited for her to recover, the album evolved. “We were listening to lots of French music, lots of soundtracks, at the time,” Amedeo says. “What was going on in the music world was very different from what we were doing” – the alt scene was then full of garage rock and dance punk – “but we decided to be true to ourselves.”

“Once it was finished, I hated it,” says Makino, laughing. “It felt like a big stick of butter; it was so rich.” But she soon made her peace with what would become the group’s most acclaimed release. “I hate music that is simply pretty,” she says. “But Serge Gainsbourg wrote insanely beautiful music that was brutal at the same time, because of his suffering.” Blonde Redhead’s new sound was similarly affecting, the cacophony of their earlier records now absent, but their signature longing, introspection and anguish hauntingly intact.

The group continued to explore this sound on the albums that followed, but Makino struggled with her self-worth, doubting whether, hypothetically, she could make music without the twins. After Barragán, though, she recorded a solo album, 2019’s Adult Baby, working with Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier and Ryuichi Sakamoto. “It was liberating for me – I was flying the whole time,” she says. “You can have a lot of fun making music; I proved that to myself. Nobody was competitive with me this time.”

Perhaps it’s surprising, then, that she returned to Blonde Redhead to make Sit Down for Dinner. But the connection between Makino, Amedeo and Simone remains mystical: they can’t explain it, but they trust it implicitly. “We bring out the best in each other,” says Makino. “Amedeo comes alive when we work together, and vice versa. He draws things from me I never knew I could achieve.” Their love affair is long over, but “what we have creatively is a for ever thing”, she says.

Their time apart has bred a respect for what they can achieve alone. Amedeo speaks admiringly of Makino’s “determination” on this album, working solo in the studio as she sheltered with their engineer during lockdown, while Makino praises Amedeo’s craft. “You can hear it on Snowman,” she says, a note of awe in her voice. “He layered that song into an epic masterpiece.”

The result is a suite of melancholy pop that sings of very adult concerns, of problems without easy solutions, with characteristic honesty. The title track was inspired by Makino’s mother’s dementia. “My mother was passing between madness and sanity. She said: ‘I worked so hard all my life; I should be able to choose the way I go.’ All I could tell her was: ‘I’m sorry, Mummy, you’re right, you don’t deserve this.’”

In her creative life, however, the past few years have been validating. She has proved her mettle with her solo album and found a way to make Blonde Redhead work – to make music without suffering. “Music is who I am,” she says. “I don’t know if there’s any other way of feeling like I’m worthy of anything. Blonde Redhead is three passive-aggressives who need an outlet, and making records is not easy. But this time, I laid down the law: ‘I will lose it if we fight making this record.’” She pauses for a moment and smiles. “So we didn’t. And it worked quite well.”

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Indie rock trio Blonde Redhead has announced their latest record, which will release on Sept. 29 with a titled of Sit Down for Dinner , released on section1. It's the long-running group's first album in nine years, with the band's most recent record released back in 2014. Blonde Redhead will be touring North America, UK, and Europe this year -- dates listed below.

The new record was written over a five year period, written in New York, Milan, and Tuscany.

The title is inspired by The Year of Magical Thinking , a memoir by Joan Didion, which connects concepts from the memoir with Kazu Makino's experiences through the pandemic.

Listen to "Snowman" from the upcoming record here:

Sit Down for Dinner Tracklist:

1. Snowman 2. Kiss Her Kiss Her 3. Not for Me 4. Melody Experiment 5. Rest of Her Life 6. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 1 7. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 2 8. I Thought You Should Know 9. Before 10. If 11. Via Savona   Blonde Redhead Sit Down for Dinner Vinyl + Dinner Bundle Dates

Sat. Sep. 23 - Paris, FR @ Montezuma Cafe Mon. Sep. 25 - London, UK @ Brilliant Corners Thu. Sep. 28 - New York, NY @ Public Records Sun. Oct. 1 - Los Angeles, CA @ Chainsaw   Blonde Redhead Tour Dates

Fri. June 2 - McGill, NV @ Schellraiser Music Festival Wed. June 7 - Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon - SOLD OUT Wed. June 14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right - SOLD OUT Thu. July 20 - London, UK @ The Lexington - SOLD OUT Thu. Aug. 31 - Ogden, UT @ Ogden Amphitheater (supporting Phantogram) Mon. Oct. 16 - San Francisco, CA @ August Hall Wed. Oct. 18 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre Fri. Oct. 20 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom Sat. Oct. 21 - Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall Tue. Oct. 24 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre Wed. Oct. 25 - Sante Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf Fri. Oct. 27 - Austin, TX @ TBA Sat. Oct. 28 - Dallas, TX @ Studio at The Factory Mon. Oct. 30 - St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar and Hall Tue. Oct. 31 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall Thu. Nov. 2 - Toronto, ON @ TBA Fri. Nov. 3 - Montreal, QC @ Le Studio TD Sat. Nov. 4 - Somerville, MA @ Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre Wed. Nov. 8 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer Thu. Nov. 9 - Washington, DC @ Howard Theatre Fri. Nov. 10 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel Mon. Nov. 20 - Genève, CH @ PTR L’Usine Tue. Nov. 21 - Parma, IT @ Teatro Regio di Parma Thu. Nov. 23 - Cologne, DE @ Gebaude 9 Fri. Nov. 24 - Berlin, DE @ Hole 44 Sat. Nov. 25 - Hamburg, DE @ Bahnhof Pauli Mon. Nov. 27 - Lille, FR @ Aeronef Tue. Nov. 28 - Paris, FR @ La Cigale Wed. Nov. 29 - Nantes, FR @ Stereolux Fri. Dec. 1 - Rennes, FR @ Antipode Sat. Dec. 2 - La Rochelle, FR @ La Sirene Sun. Dec. 3 - Toulouse, FR @ Le Bikini Tue. Dec. 5 - Brussels, BE @ Orangerie (at Botanique) Wed. Dec. 6 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Thu. Dec. 7 - Leffinge, BE @ De Zwerver Sat. Dec. 9 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club Sun. Dec. 10 - Bristol, UK @ Thekla Tue. Dec. 12 - London, UK @ Village Underground

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Blonde Redhead Announce New Album Sit Down for Dinner, 2023 Tour Dates

The post Blonde Redhead Announce New Album Sit Down for Dinner, 2023 Tour Dates appeared first on Consequence .

Blonde Redhead are back with Sit Down for Dinner , their first new album since 2014. Out September 29th, the LP features the lead single, “Snowman,” and will be supported by a tour of North America, the UK, and Europe.

Sit Down for Dinner was written over a five-year period in locations spanning from New York City and upstate New York to Milan and Tuscany. The album’s lyrics address the inescapable struggles of adulthood, whether it’s a communication breakdown, wondering which way to turn, or holding onto your dreams.

Band member Kazu Makino found inspiration for the album from a passage in Joan Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking , that resonated with the uncertainty of the early pandemic months and the temporarily lost ritual of eating dinner with her parents far away in Japan: “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”

At the same time, the group — made up of Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace — has long placed importance on the meal while rehearsing or on tour. “I know a lot of people eat and run, eat in front of their TV, or don’t care about it too much — and that’s OK — but we really do,” explained Simone in a statement. “It’s a moment for us to sit down and have time with each other.”

The lead single, “Snowman,” is evidence of Blonde Redhead’s shared connection, as Amedeo’s voice seamlessly floats over a groove inspired by Brazilian experimental music. As Amedeo explained, the track is about “how it can be a blessing or a curse to be invisible and undetectable, and how it’s something we all feel and desire at times.” Stream it below.

Get Blonde Redhead Tickets Here

Blonde Redhead will back Sit Down for Dinner with a Fall 2023 tour. Kicking off on October 16th in San Francisco, it includes stops in Chicago, Brooklyn, DC, and beyond. The trek will immediately be preceded by a series of special dinners with the band that will only be available via an exclusive bundle . See their full touring schedule below.

Tickets go on sale Friday, June 2nd at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster . Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Sit Down for Dinner marks the proper follow-up to 2014’s  Barragán , and pre-orders are ongoing. In 2017, Blonde Redhead released an EP titled 3 O’Clock .

Sit Down for Dinner Artwork:

Sit Down for Dinner Tracklist: 01. Snowman 02. Kiss Her Kiss Her 03. Not for Me 04. Melody Experiment 05. Rest of Her Life 06. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 1 07. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 2 08. I Thought You Should Know 09. Before 10. If 11. Via Savona

Blonde Redhead 2023 Tour Dates: 06/02 – McGill, NV @ Schellraiser Music Festival 06/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon 06/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right 07/20 – London, UK @ The Lexington 08/31 – Ogden, UT @ Ogden Amphitheater * 09/23 – Paris, FR @ Montezuma Cafe # 09/25 – London, UK @ Brilliant Corners # 09/28 – New York, NY @ Public Records # 10/01 – Los Angeles, CA @ Chainsaw # 10/16 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall 10/18 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre 10/20 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom 10/21 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall 10/24 – Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre 10/25 – Sante Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf 10/27 – Austin, TX @ TBA 10/28 – Dallas, TX @ Studio at The Factory 10/30 – St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar and Hall 10/31 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall 11/02 – Toronto, ON @ TBA 11/03 – Montreal, QC @ Le Studio TD 11/04 – Somerville, MA @ Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre 11/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 11/09 – Washington, DC @ Howard Theatre 11/10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel 11/20 – Genève, CH @ PTR L’Usine 11/21 – Parma, IT @ Teatro Regio di Parma 11/23 – Cologne, DE @ Gebaude 9 11/24 – Berlin, DE @ Hole 44 11/25 – Hamburg, DE @ Bahnhof Pauli 11/27 – Lille, FR @ Aeronef 11/28 – Paris, FR @ La Cigale 11/29 – Nantes, FR @ Stereolux 12/01 – Rennes, FR @ Antipode 12/02 – La Rochelle, FR @ La Sirene 12/03 – Toulouse, FR @ Le Bikini 12/05 – Brussels, BE @ Orangerie (at Botanique) 12/06 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso 12/07 – Leffinge, BE @ De Zwerver 12/09 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club 12/10 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla 12/12 – London, UK @ Village Underground

* = w/ Phantogram # = Sit Down for Dinner vinyl + dinner bundle dates

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Concert review: blonde redhead.

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The chance to witness a band returning to their former glory is the kind of thing that’s very hard to pass up — especially if you can do that in a small, intimate Portland venue on a chilly Friday night. New York’s finest, Blonde Redhead, have shifted a lot over the years, going from Sonic Youth-inspired noise-rockers to psych/shoegaze deities to would-be synth-popsters, and though they’ve had some down times (and downtime), the level of love and adoration they still command is frankly inspiring. Of course, that isn’t a given; in the internet age, great bands that start to suck are oft’ forgotten and ignored as they tour, their listeners moving onto a million other bands essentially making what they do. For them to all flock back to the fold so fast, without even missing a beat, is impressive — and a turnout like this one felt downright special .

Luckily for Blonde Redhead, they put out enough remarkable music in their heyday that their listeners can forgive the missteps and will still turn out in droves — at least, that’s what their sold-out Wonder Ballroom performance would lead us to believe. This tour was announced alongside their newest album Sit Down for Dinner , and while it’s likely that most of the people here bought tickets before that record’s release, it feels equally likely that many of them would not have actually shown up if it had been yet another dud. It wasn’t a dud, meaning that the trio of Kazu Makino and the brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace were greeted with hungry applause even for their newest cuts, a true rarity for an album that has been out less than a month. That “Loved Despite of Great Faults” from Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons was just as exciting to the Wonder crowd as the massive Dinner cut “Melody Experiment” was, in its own way, inspirational, especially after years of seeing bands play new songs to tepid applause.

Most of that can be chalked up to the fact that this was their first Portland show in six years — and their first with new material in nearly a decade. You could tell how genuine the anticipation was by their patience going into the show — even with technical difficulties delaying their nine pm start time. In the moment, their audio issues felt more like trolling than anything else: the sound would drop for a moment, and then there would be a metallic whoosh , like a sword sound effect in Kill Bill . The music would return, and the cycle would repeat. Sometimes, it would get loud before disappearing again. For a band that used to dabble in noisy sonic weirdness, it kinda felt like part of the performance. The trio said almost nothing during the entire show, and the only thing beyond the basic “thank you, goodnight” was Makino, baffled by the whole thing: “That feedback was something, huh? We were thinking, oh my god, this could get really bad !”

Thankfully, though, they were undeterred by the difficulties. After the problems were patched, the trio wandered onstage to thunderous applause. Opening with dream-pop masterpiece Misery is a Butterfly ’s “Falling Man,” it felt like they immediately got into the zone, the mark of a band that have been playing together for the better part of three decades. Makino and Pace’s voices still sound excellent, time wearing down the edges in ways that remind us of how fantastic it is to watch great, unconventional singers age into new, slightly (or totally) different kinds of singers.

Their stage decorations were charmingly low-tech: just a backdrop with formless, multi-textured blobs of color and sequins sewn into it, which shimmered and danced in the stage lights (and disco ball, at times!). It was tastefully un-flashy, the sign of a band that wanted to create ambiance, but didn’t want to overdo anything. It was a great trick, because combined with the lights and the disco ball overhead, the hour-ish performance they put on was borderline hypnotic, the audience hanging on every song. At least for this reviewer, the crowd began to dissolve away at times, the beautiful magic being weaved onstage too captivating to care about the rest of the world for the span of a concert.

It’s hard to know how to describe sets like this one in a way that really conveys the atmosphere. Watching Makino and the brothers Pace dial into each other and trade-off vocal duties felt like a master class on the “power” in the term “power trio.” The rest of the set traipsed through songs new and old, focused entirely on Dinner , their incredible 2007 record 23 , and the aforementioned Butterfly , each one getting a handful of tracks mixed into the bunch. The set was weaved together in a way that felt hyper-intentional, the older songs complementing the new in ways that made the set feel even longer than it was, in the best possible ways. Some songs — “Melody Experiment” and 23 ’s “Spring and By Summer Fall” most notably — got extended jams that allowed each track to breathe comfortably before the enraptured crowd. Each song’s response was the same: ecstatic applause, the greatest being the encore closer “Kiss Her Kiss Her,” also extended far beyond its recorded borders, the perfect showcase of three musicians who seem to have mind-melded to the point of effortless jam sessions feeling as easy as breathing.

On a rainy Friday in October, even the greatest of bands can make the act of leaving the house feel needlessly exhausting. “Will it even be worth it?” your brain will scream at you, forcing you to confront the siren song of warm blankets and takeout, far away from the madding concert crowds. Blonde Redhead’s Wonder Ballroom performance was the kind of show that both makes it worth it to leave the house, and complicates future instances of wanting to stay home. “What if the show I skip is that good?” you’ll ask yourself, the fear of missing out on something excellent becoming more overwhelming. Just do it. Put on some pants, leave your house, go to the show. Sometimes, you’ll feel like it wasn’t worth it. Sometimes, though, the show that you kicked yourself for having to go to will end up being one of the best performances you’ve seen all year.

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October 25, 2023 at 9:31 am

Great review, thanks! My turn in December:)

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