Chronophage, Behavior & Mayako XO, Violent Change at The Knockout SF

Talent Moat presents Chronophage, Behavior & Mayako XO, and Violent Change at The Knockout SF. $13/15. 21+. Proof of vaccination and mask required for entry.

“Chronophage’s songs are a tangled snarl of complications, composed in good part composed of agitated jitter-splattering guitars and antic drums, but also touched with the lyrical in vocal parts that unfold with a cerebral sort of ease. The slash and twitch and onslaught of their songs might put you in mind of the Fall, the Swell Maps, Fire Engines or, more recently, Protomartyr, but the nervy, baroque singing calls more ornate post-punkers to mind, Microdisney and the Monochrome Set, for example. They are easy to enjoy but hard to get a handle on.” - Dusted

Behavior & Mayako XO's "Free World" is the first full-length issue from an ongoing collaboration between Behavior (Bedros Yeretzian, Evan Burrows, Justin Tenney, Robbie Cody) and Mayako XO (Sara Gernsbacher). It was tracked between 2019 and 2020 and assembled over the course of the last year in Los Angeles. The album reflects its creation under open-ended yet intent circumstances. What’s recorded is a tangled pas de deux between discredited and demonstrative characters, singing through shifting voices over a living, melancholic music rendered legible by surveillance.

Violent Change Hazy buzzsaw pop channeling a Swell Maps meets Guided by Voices vibe. A churning wash of guitars and driving rhythms topped off by guitarist/vocalist Matt Bleyle’s distinctive laconic deadpan vocals.

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