djank / Crazy Paving / Or Sobre Blau

About

The Ivy House presents a night of incredible new music, with some of the most exciting new voices in the scene. Formed by Taylor Pollock, djank is the amalgamation of all of the kitschy antiques your grandparents hoarded and all of the beers you stole in highschool. Formed into a big mess of heavy guitars, four part harmonies, DIY videos, and lofi cassette loops, djank take inspiration from folk, midwest emo, 90’s pop, and whatever records or snippets of audio they find in charity shops and on Internet Archive. Robbie Carman’s new project, Crazy Paving, released their debut EP at the end of last year. Though the material is written by Robbie, the band recorded and perform live as an energetic seven piece. The group consists of members from other bands of the same scene (nudista, Flypaper, Wilshaw, Moon Balloon, Baggio) and are very comfortable with each other on stage, this makes for a great show. Clearly influenced by the likes of Beck, The Clean, Buzzcocks and the Undertones. Or Sobre Blau is Kiran Leonard and Andreu G. Serra, whose new album Making Friends is out on June 2nd via Stroom TV. Harmonically, the duo's debt to Slint's ambivalent dissonances and the misshapen free blues of Loren Connors and Bill Orcutt remains evident. Added to this, the more expansive sound on “Making Friends” draws from wells as varied as Title Fight's scrappy emo, Yellow Swans' ultra-thick blasted-out fuzz, and Maher Shalal Hash Baz's cracked arborescent chamber music.