$5!
Low Dough Show co-presented by CD101
w/ The Postelles and The Static Jacks

The Wombats
http://www.thewombats.co.uk/

Contrary to appearances – the cheeky-chappy demeanour, the catchy tunes – there was little irony to the title of the Wombats' debut album, A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation. Although glib on the surface, its songs were rooted in a bleakness that went on to consume frontman Matthew Murphy in a quarter-life crisis, fuelled, rather than relieved, by antidepressants. Four years later, This Modern Glitch documents Murphy's anxieties with deliberate, self-absorbed honesty and the prosaic rawness of recent experience. You don't notice this immediately, because the catchy tunes and irritatingly exuberant vocal riffs are still here in abundance. Only Anti-D, with its stagey strings, wears its bitter, melancholic heart on its sleeve. With every listen, however, the glittering synths of Our Perfect Disease and Tokyo (Vampires and Werewolves), and the screeching guitar riff of Last Night I Dreamt, sound more feverish and steeped in angst.

Set times for tomorrow night:

7:45 PM - The Static Jacks
8:30 PM - The Postelles
9:30 PM - The Wombats

See you at Outland!