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The OccasionCannery Hours Smash Ever since New York began its renaissance with a certain EP called 'The Modern Age' the music world has fixed its beady eyes on this epicentre of cool to see what else could emerge. Who is the next Strokes for whom music journalists can stumble over clumsy comparisons (cf: "...a languid Michael Stipe backed to the Black Heart Procession!" - Filter magazine or "...unleashes searing psychedelic rock with a casual flick of the wrists" - Time Out NY)? Welcome to The Occasion. Tours with Interpol, the Unicorns, and playing shows with NY hipsters On! Air! Library!, Inouk, The Double and more have brought this band into the international spotlight. Lead and backing vocals switch between acoustic/electric pianist Brent Cordero, guitarist Jordi Wheeler and drummer Charles Burst. Marlon Sporer uses careful and melodic bass while tape looper and percussionist Sara Shaw creates an overall ambience of quiet, repressed menace. This debut 'Cannery Hours' gives us the sweet bonus of exclusive tracks Smoke And Mirrors and The Deserters. The desolate, cracked neon landscape portrayed in the artwork is striking in its representation of stark beauty. How would you respond to this music, with the blistering sun on your face and gravel tramped under foot? Cannery Hours is an amalgam of Pink Floyd with lashings of jagged guitar bursts. It's a hypnotic mix of cerebral tape loops and creative percussion. It seeps into your blood, managing to find equilibrium between tension and unease, urgency and languor. Back In Town is short and sweet, yet disturbing and You May Know Me is full of layered backing vocals which carry the tune on a rippling wave of emotion and strength. Let go and respond to this material. With patience, serenity and a free will you might discover an important sonic backing to many an adventure.  |
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