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Psychic Ills, Follakzoid, Speck Mountain Early Warnings (Music) Member Picks Recommended Soundboard
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Young Santiago quartet Follakzoid represent a new strain of Chilean psych-rock, rejecting the folkloric current pioneered more than four decades ago by the likes of Los Jaivas and Los Blops in favor of something more mechanical and lean. The group’s first U.S. full-length, II (Sacred Bones), borrows heavily from Neu!’s chugging motorik rhythms, and guitarist Domingo Garcia-Huidobro pours out molten licks that ooze into the music’s sharp crevices, whether he’s driving hard, exploring with reckless confidence, or launching wild volleys into the great beyond. Keyboardist Alfredo Thiermann answers with an almost plastic sound beholden to Philip Glass and Steve Reich as much as to old-school kosmische, and bassist-singer Juan Pablo Rodrigues buries his restrained, nearly robotic incantations in the murk, his vocals bouncing around in the sound as if he’s merely thinking out loud. This is the group’s Chicago debut. —Peter Margasak Psychic Ills headline; Follakzoid and Speck Mountain open.
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Empty Bottle
- 1035 N. Western Ave., Chicago Ukrainian Village/East Village IL 60622
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773-276-3600
- emptybottle.com
- (based on 42 user reviews)
