Moviola (Columbus, OH) @ Conor Byrne
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Moviola plays Seattle for the first time in over 30 years as a band.
Moviola is a music and art-making collective of five friends that started in Columbus OH in 1993, who have released full-length records, singles, videos, and multimedia shows that run the gamut, an inimitable mix of early 4-track fuzz-pop to present-day hi-fi soul, country, and many lands in between.
"The seemingly infinite musical variety afforded by rock’s elementary structure has found a generous host in this band from Columbus, Ohio, which has been releasing stylistically inconsistent records on and off since the 1993. Attempts to categorize Moviola, in aggregate or even on an album by album basis, is impossibly slippery: their diversity has summoned up comparisons from NRBQ to Teenage Fanclub, Guided by Voices to Neil Young. Under an awning roughly defined by the Midwest lo-fi aesthetic, what repeatedly jumps out is the audible commitment to staying casual, trying things out and making them work in whatever framework a song summons. Moviola is never silly, as some of their peers have been, but their seriousness is never ponderous or off-puttingly weird. If that suggests that they hew to a safe lane, they don’t; they appear to have a gyroscopic ability to keep their balance even while leaning way over. Fans of Elephant 6 and Pavement will find lots to like in the band’s extensive catalogue of unpretentious genre-defying guitar rock.” - Trouser Press
https://moviolamusic.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/moviolamusic
Moviola is a music and art-making collective of five friends that started in Columbus OH in 1993, who have released full-length records, singles, videos, and multimedia shows that run the gamut, an inimitable mix of early 4-track fuzz-pop to present-day hi-fi soul, country, and many lands in between.
"The seemingly infinite musical variety afforded by rock’s elementary structure has found a generous host in this band from Columbus, Ohio, which has been releasing stylistically inconsistent records on and off since the 1993. Attempts to categorize Moviola, in aggregate or even on an album by album basis, is impossibly slippery: their diversity has summoned up comparisons from NRBQ to Teenage Fanclub, Guided by Voices to Neil Young. Under an awning roughly defined by the Midwest lo-fi aesthetic, what repeatedly jumps out is the audible commitment to staying casual, trying things out and making them work in whatever framework a song summons. Moviola is never silly, as some of their peers have been, but their seriousness is never ponderous or off-puttingly weird. If that suggests that they hew to a safe lane, they don’t; they appear to have a gyroscopic ability to keep their balance even while leaning way over. Fans of Elephant 6 and Pavement will find lots to like in the band’s extensive catalogue of unpretentious genre-defying guitar rock.” - Trouser Press
https://moviolamusic.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/moviolamusic
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Where is it happening?
Conor Byrne Pub, 5140 Ballard Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98107-4818, United States
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