Ears Wide Open: Phoenix and the Turtle
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I first ran across Phoenix and the Turtle in 2007 when the quartet played a blogger-curated event called Now Blog This (props to LA Underground for curating them). Their climate-changing post-rock, even in a small club with sketchy sound, turned the evening from good to revelatory. Shame on me for not keeping closer track the past couple of years, but the pride of the Inland Empire, with their Bard-inspired moniker, last week released a new EP, “Swallow Up the Moon” (via Fluttery Records). Fans of otherwordly soundscapes, string- and piano-infused euphony and boy/girl vocals will find a cinematic sweet spot in these four songs. It’s graduate-level art-rock.
||| Download: “514”
Photo by Matthew Johnson
k-bronze, always on top of things… and if you’re not at the echoplex on 3/6 try and stop by our show at pehrspace. it’s a good one.