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MAUM PRESENTS: ISLANDS / JEMINA PEARL (Be Your Own Pet) / TORO Y MOI (AN ALL AGES SHOW!)
Friday Oct 30, 2009 5:00 PM
Last here on the eve of the 'Stache Bash, Islands returns to Bottletree in support of their new album to be released this coming fall.
PAST PRAISE FOR ISLAND’S RETURN TO THE SEA LP:
a rollicking, whimsical sound … The songs meld radio-friendly melodies with alt-folk orchestrations and surrealist lyrics. –SPIN
In a modern day world of homogenous indie bands, it is extremely refreshing when introduced to a band that have managed to acheve some originality. – RADAR
Islands are poised to turn heads this year with their brand of manic, uber-catchy pop.
-PITCHFORK MEDIA
It’s sprawling, ambitious pop music. – FILTER
Tickets for this show are $15.
This is an early all ages show.
Doors at 5pm.
TORO Y MOI | 5:00 PM
 PITCHFORK REVIEW:
When exploring Toro Y Moi's blogged world of reportage Polaroids, collages, and extraneous side-projects (house music producer Les Sins, for example) it's clear this South Carolinian artist/musician/creator is obsessed on capturing every nuance or spark of inspiration that ignites in his sun-baked mind. So then, expectedly, his lo-fi tunes are a varied assortment of ideas, meandering between funk bass slapped grooves and slowed-down synth pop. "Blessa" is the latter and feels much like a summer's slumber, with its natural instrumentation and swelling vocal patterns beautifully warping like a weak radio transmission. Gauzy guitar and "woo"-ing voices will recall the distant timbres of Panda Bear, and the lyrics are just as sparse and intangible in concept, too. At just over two minutes long, there's not much building going on here. Rather, as an interlude might, it feels momentary. For this reason I can't help get the feeling that, as with other tracks, "Blessa" is just like one of his spontaneously snapped photos of a hazy afternoon that quickly captures a sentiment and bottles it, culminating yet another piece of Toro Y Moi's life collage.
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ISLANDS | 5:00 PM
 Montreal’s Islands consider ‘Arm’s Way’ to be their first ‘band’ album. It follows 2005’s inaugural and magnificent ‘Return To The Sea’ album. ‘Arm’s Way’ is a sprawling symphonic work of art, it sees Nick Thorburn really coming into his own as a composer, with he and his fellow Islands clearly at the height of their powers.
The Album was recorded in Montreal and Woodinville, Washington State. Engineered by Ryan Hadlock and Produced by Ryan Hadlock and Islands. All the instrumentation was recorded in Montreal and the vocals, lead and backing were then recorded at Ryan’s own studio, Bear Creek. A beautiful and spooky converted barn in rural Washington State, roughly an hour from Seattle, it is notable for containing the ‘phone booth studio’ that has a 45 lathe that records and produces one of a kind records, that Elvis supposedly cut his first recording on. Ryan, a big fan of Joe Meek, performed certain rituals around the studio to ward off evil spirits during these sessions.
Forthcoming single and lead album track ‘The Arm’ was written in the woods by the side of the road following the band’s van having a tire blow out. Marooned three hours outside of London and following an intense thunderstorm, Nick ran into the woods with his guitar and it was ‘The Arm’ that poured out of him.
The subject matter of ‘Pieces Of You’ was inspired by the true story of a group of local teenagers and pre-teens that years ago when Nick was at school, attacked and brutally murdered a local fisherman. The group showed no remorse in court, having shaved their heads and spray-painted "murderers 95" on their cell wall. The story shocked the nation. Nick was friends with one of the offenders; that was until he stole his watch at gym class one day, a couple of months before the killing.
The album covers an astounding array of subjects, including a song ‘In The Rushes’ inspired by the notion of ‘Augdenblict’, which translated means (roughly) ‘Sudden Inflashing’, an idea made famous by Martin Heidegger. The last song on the album, ‘Vertigo (If It’s A Crime)’ is a self-proclaimed ‘gothic symphony in three acts’. Beginning with a defendant pleading their case in front of a jury. In the second, entirely instrumental section, the wordless narrative follows the defendant "to the gallows", and in the final act, the defendant is hung, and what only lasts a brief moment seems like a psychedelic eternity.
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JEMINA PEARL | 5:00 PM
 one night way back in october of 2008, john moved into jemina's house in nashville tn. now neither one can really remember the exact order of events, but somewhere in that month they stayed up many nights and wrote many songs, recorded them at battle tapes, convinced maxwell to move in with them, and then they all took a china town bus to new york.
Additional Performances by: Thurston Moore, Iggy Pop, Dave Sitek, Derek Stanton.
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