Beauty Pill October 24, 2006

The Beauty Pill mixes pop influences with dark, twisting arrangements and off-kilter instrumentation. As much a studio experiment as it is music for pleasure's sake, the Pill still avoids the weirder leanings of experimental songwriting.

Rahim
Rahim not only draws inspiration from a specific sound -- think Fugazi, The Dismemberment Plan, and other bands that add an element of adventurousness to rock and hardcore punk -- but it also expands on those acts' exploratory sensibilities. The trio maintains exacting control over its requisite angular guitars and skittering drums, at the same time doling out unexpectedly lush backup harmonies and a melancholy, restrained organ.-NPR

Judah Johnson
Drowsy psych-pop guitars and crooning sweet-sad vocals wrapped around epic ballads ["Loop Hymn"] and ambient space jams ["Ascension of the Zephyr Monks"] help separate this Detroit trio from its boring garage-rock contemporaries. Judah Johnson sweeten the strange brew even more by adding tribal drumming and jazz piano breaks on "Tommi (Tears in a Bottle).

Admission is $8.00

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