TREEFORT/NOISE BANDS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS
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LOST LANDER Linen Building 5-5:40 p.m. Loop the beginning of Lost Lander’s “Cold Feet” and set up the DIY planetarium kit that comes with the band’s new album, DRRT. Then lose yourself in the Sigur Ros-meetsFleet Foxes sound that washes over you. Lost Lander is a collaboration between Matt Sheehy and Menomena’s Brent Knopf, who helped with production on the band’s 11song album. Lost Lander’s Portland, Ore.-grown sound doesn’t rub like a city sound—DRRT is an album for a coastal cruise.
TENNIS Main Stage 7-7:40 p.m. A few years back, husband-and-wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley set out in a 30-foot sailboat on a journey down the Eastern Seaboard. The trip lasted the better part of a year, and when the couple returned home to Denver, they channeled the experience into an album, 2011’s Cape Dory. Tennis’ album is comprised of breezy retro pop that is a throwback to the simple pop songs of the ’60s. Moore’s bright, sweet voice makes a perfect companion to Riley’s jangly, smooth surf-inspired guitar. Tennis is set to open for Of Montreal on the final day of the Treefort Music Fest. Even though the two bands take entirely different approaches to music, Tennis’ charming and agreeable stripped-down pop numbers will provide a nice palate cleanser for Of Montreal’s grandiose, over-the-top performance art.
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MWAHAHA Main Stage 5:30-6:30 p.m. The quartet behind Mwahaha has been playing in and around Oakland, Calif., for more than a decade. Brothers Nathan and Cyrus Tilton, along with Ross Peacock and James Murphy, command an army of synths and drums. The result is something like acid-dropping monks bellowing Gregorian chants tinged with a starburst of colors.
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KOKO AND THE SWEETMEATS Linen Building 10-10:40 p.m. Seattle psychedelic garage-rock band Koko and the Sweetmeats sounds dangerous. The band makes dark and spacious tunes, using grungy blues riffs dotted with sparse percussion and moaning laments to craft richly atmospheric music. If Black Sabbath were an indie band and fronted by a crooner instead of a wailer, it could well sound like Koko and the Sweetmeats.
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