Collected works

Kria Brekken and Avey Tare are a married indie pop duo. They're fairly well known in underground weird-pop circles for past and present membership in Scandinavian synth lot Mum and NY pop weirdos Animal Collective. Live they reminded me of a freak folk version of Animal Collective. (Incidentally, despite the date at bottom, this post is landing a day before its time since I'll likely be sans Internet on Thursday).

Avey seems like a remarkably affable sort, by the way, smiling pleasantly and chatting with folks in an unfeigned, easygoing manner before the show.





Kria Brekken.





Avey stretches for some feedback sampling.



Singalong action!



Silly face.



It was a lovely show.

• Thursday Show reminder (posted a day early since I'll be in transit): Gunsmoke and The Mighty Eagle Band plat at Babylon as part of the Rock'n'Roll Pizza Party. Harshey, Last Voice Heard and Machine Gun Dolly perform at the Thirsty Toad. The Fully Down, No Other Way, Red October and Travel By Owl and perform at Mavericks.
  

Gods and monsters

Any show with the Hi Lo Trons on the bill is more or less guaranteed to be a good show, but the real reason I went to Mavericks (and not Babylon or Irene's) was to catch Avie Tare of Animal Collective and his wife Kria Brekken (formerly of Mum) perform as a duo. It turned out to sound more or less like what I expected, and was also very good.

As a bonus, opener Sadie Hell's set was also good, if short; my first time seeing Cindy Olberg and Ben Welland. They were backed by Angus Cruikshank, the drummer from Clock Strikes.



Avie and Kira.



The Hi Lo Trons closed with what was, for them, a fairly low-key set. They have a new adjunct percussionist in Chris.



Sarah Hallman provided some extra vocals - and of course she releases her new CD at The Black Tomato tomorrow.

• Show reminder: Male Nurse (a.k.a. Davey Quesnelle), Dear Judah (a.k.a. Adam Solomanian) and Steve Adamyk (a.k.a. Steve Adamyk) perform at The Manx.