Luxury Skin w/ Kilynn Lunsford, Luna Honey + Pain Annihilator

7:00PM Doors // 8:00PM Show

21+

$12 in advance // $15 dos

LUXURY SKIN (art rock from Brooklyn, NY) culls a range of diverse influences — from Nick Cave’s playful gravitas to Brecht and Weill’s provocative theatrical agitprop (think Lotte Lenya meets The Dresden Dolls in a piano lounge). Debut LP It’s All Over (2023) elegantly performs and confrontationally invokes a wide breadth of characters, moods, and affective states from comic pagliaccio to tragic heroine, from blueswoman to bad bitch. Adorned by diaphanous electronics and string quartet overlays that undulate between plaintive and luscious, It's All Over coolly collapses the club, the cabaret, and the concert hall into a musical dream space for living real life — and real love — in a real way.

As if Blackout was reimagined by Throbbing Gristle, KILYNN LUNSFORD's debut Custodians of Human Succession straddles unclear boundaries between electro-pop, post-punk and the avant-garde; it delves into those liminal spaces between pop culture and experimentalism, between city and country, between verse and chorus.

Custodians Of Human Succession is Lunsford’s first work since the dissolution of her former project, noise-punk outfit Taiwan Housing Project in 2021. She has released records on labels, such as K*ll Rock Stars, Ecstatic Peace, Ever/ Never, Siltbreeze, Not Not Fun.

Inspired by her longtime love of collage, and an “exquisite corpse approach to photography”, Lunsford and chief collaborator Don Bruno developed a DIY recording style the two jokingly referred to as “Fluid Fidelity”: We would record things very flatly”, explains Lunsford, “ with cheap broken gear and off-time rhythms, sounds with no reverb or sense of space – almost like an auditory hallucination – and combine that with high-end preamps and high-end mics, so that my voice is out front almost to the point of being disembodied from the music.”.

Embellishing this collage, more ornately still, are Lunsford’s caustic lyrics, packed as they are with a potent blood-stream of unflinching surrealism and discomfiting satire.

LUNA HONEY is a dark, absurdist post-punk trio birthed out of DC’s DIY scene in 2017 and now residing in Philadelphia. The trio, consisting of Maura Pond, Benjamin Schurr, and Levi Flack is known for their expansive range, with songs that run the gamut from searing vocals that float above a maelstrom of noise and feedback to moody lullabies with lurking bass lines.

With inspirations ranging from 70’s library music, Swans, Giallo films, and the Greek mythological trip through the underworld, PAIN ANNIHILATOR brings forth a unique and fierce sonic picture of Lynchian tragedy on his new EP. This portrait offers an insight to the repercussions of excess, of heartbreak and self-reflection, set to a score of palpitating apocalypse. This EP also focuses on collaborations with other like minded artists and surmises the scene of complete depravity through the lens of myth reinterpreted as we see PAIN ANNIHILATOR embark through the trials of Hades.

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