GREET DEATH AT PLATYPUS

GREET DEATH (MI)
https://www.greetdeath.net/

True to the band’s name, death creeps into nearly all of Greet Death’s songs. And yet, through this ever-present certainty, the band finds the absolute core of what it means to be alive.
Since 2011, elementary school friends Logan Gaval and Harper Boyhtari have been writing songs full of big ideas and everyday details. Their music, loud and full of melodic sensibility, draws from shoegaze, doomgaze, and a little-bit-of-everything-gaze, creating an emotionally maximalist palette. Writing separately but playing together (think of them as small-town Michigan’s Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus), they’ve been drawing in a devoted crowd ever since their unexpectedly successful debut Dixieland in 2017, followed by their next-level opus New Hell in 2019. You’d be hard-pressed to find albums with such heart: ones flooded both with full-bloom feelings and the dumb stories we tell ourselves in order to get through the day.Returning six years later with Die In Love, their third and best album, Greet Death faces the great human problem—that we must go on living despite knowing we’re going to die, and loving despite knowing we’re going to lose it all—with great sensitivity, humor, and flourish. With this album, Greet Death has found a way to anthemize our suffering, to turn it into one great, big, beautiful singalong: we’re all gonna die, woo!
“Everybody struggles in a roundabout way,” goes the album’s opening lyric. No longer just honing in on their own pain, the band is now using suffering as a jumping-off point, a way to connect, and ultimately love one another. “Emptiness is everywhere, so hold each other close,” Harper sings later on, another of the album’s key lyrics. After years of performing their songs live, the band has seen firsthand how keenly their audience connects to their music. “So I wanted to try to write something less fatalistic, because I feel some kind of responsibility to help,” says Logan.

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Two Hands | One Engine (STL)

https://2h1e.bandcamp.com/

7pm - doors
8pm - show
$12 adv / $15 dos
All Ages

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