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Evian Christ Waterfall Tour
band has gone before. Despite numerous lineup changes and the tragic loss of former member Clare Amory in 2011, they’ve never stopped exploring sound’s deep potential. Unlike Animal Collective, whose label Paw Tracks they’ve released on several times, Excepter have never done a Merriweather Post Pavilion, continuing to make noise pop from every angle except any you’d expect. 2014 release Maids reveals an Excepter that are more than capable of getting to the point, a promising sign at this stage in a career full of surprising twists and turns.
ft. Evian Christ + Mssingno 20 April - MC Theater, Amsterdam 23.00 | €12 presale | Free for members before midnight ‘Sought after’ as an epithet somehow seems insignificant when you’ve worked with Kanye West, publicly baited Burial and partied on Rick Ross’s yacht. But Evian Christ is still a fresh name on people’s lips, and his Trance Parties in London are proving Meccas for future bassheads. Along for the ride is fellow trance-rap juggernaut Mssingno, whose debut scored highly across the board in December: on his self-titled EP, over-thetop trap dynamics somehow change places with more considered hip hop minimalism, but a bassy centre of gravity is a definite constant.
Ensemble Economique + AUN
Excepter
23 April - WORM, Rotterdam (w/JSCA) 19.30 | €6 | Free for members 24 April - OT301, Amsterdam (w/Bismuth) 20.30 | €8 | Free for members Excepter are aural trekkies to the full: despite their often camp stage attire, they are unflinching in going where no
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29 April - OCCII, Amsterdam 20.30 | €7 | Free for members Brian Pyle is from California, but in the kind of way Brian Wilson was from California: a bleak, outsider existence at odds with all the sunbaked revelry. At least, that's what you'd think from his music: unlike The Beach Boys there are certainly no sunny harmonies here to hide the anguish. All the yearning is well and truly surface level: horror soundtrack ambience, agoraphobic soundscapes and eerie digital deterioration. For all we know, behind the gratuitous drones of solitude, Pyle is partying all the time.