Sunday at 4:30pm on the Tito's stage. Three bands on at this time. M83 is probably first choice.
Every year ACL books at least one band that defies convention. According to Wikipedia:
Sean Lee Bowie, best known by the recording alias Yves Tumor, is an American musician and producer of experimental music, born in Miami, Florida and currently based in Turin, Italy...Raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tumor started making music at age 16 as an outlet away from "dull, conservative surroundings." Tumor is self-taught, and plays drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards. Describing its experience growing up in Tennessee as unpleasant, Yves moved at age 20 to San Diego, and then after college, to Los Angeles.
Sounds pretty normal so far. Um, no. Reviews call the music "spellbinding art rock", and a "Romantic, corporeal, gothy" offering that disrupts "hierarchies of gender, race, desire...and performance" via its "intense magnification and worship of life, death and spirituality."
Art rock is a good term for it. "Gospel for a New Century" has a good sound.
"God is a Circle" has a TV on the Radio feel.
If anything this show should be a visual spectacle.
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I think they/he came to town recently. They play Gospel for a New Century on KUTX a lot which I like, so I thought it might be a good show. Then I listened to more. The other stuff is a little too much for me.
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