Man, work has been kicking my ass since I hit Seattle. But that's no cause for despair - and no excuse for not taking advantage of the great night life around here.
I drove down to Portland over the weekend for some good socialism - more on that later. And tonight I've just gotten back from the Metric show at a downtown club. I was so exhausted all day but it was worth it. Crystal Castles opened the show - I hadn't heard of them before but will definitely track them down on iTunes. They were playing this gorgeous fucked-up atavistic glitchy shit - God I loved it.
I felt like I was yanked through a wormhole back in time, to the age of strobes & MIDI. The age of glitch as technique - back then when you reached the outer envelope of your technology's capability, and you needed to go yet farther, your only choice was to break something and modulate the result.
Glitch.
Glitch.
And Metric will always have my heart beating in their post-rock hand. They're just such a great band and I was afraid I'd never see them live (I thought they might not be big enough to make it over to Denmark, but now I've come to them). Hopefully Seattle will be a regular stop - we're close enough to Canada, right?
When I read Spook Country, I couldn't help but have the visual image of Emily Haines, Metric's lead singer, as Hollis, the book's main character. I know the timing doesn't work out - "Curfew," the band in the book, broke up at the turn of the century while Metric is still going strong, but something about the character feels the same.
So many good things come from Canada. How can one place deliver so much goodness to the world?
Posted by case at October 10, 2007 12:00 AM