Rui Gabriel w/ Foyer Red + Kolb

8:00PM Doors // 9:00PM Show

21+

$12 adv // $15 dos

Rui Gabriel’s journey to become one of indie rock's most vibrant and perceptive voices is certainly unconventional. Born in Venezuela and raised in Nicaragua, the now-Indiana-based songwriter spent his 20s in New Orleans and playing in beloved bands like Lawn, where he’s a co-songwriter and co-lead singer with Mac Folger. While that band finds the sweet spot between sing-a-long power pop and bracing post-punk, Gabriel’s solo debut efforts use a lighter palate that combines ethereal pop with ‘80s synth textures, and slacker-rock charm. This is a testament to growing up and Gabriel’s disarming lyrical sensibility.

Brooklyn’s Foyer Red makes sweet yet abrasive songs that careen into delightfully unexpected places. They bounce between time signatures, boast bass lines and guitar riffs that clang and shimmer, and feature vocals that seamlessly crisscross over each other. Whenever the songs feel like they might dissolve into near-chaos, they’re reined in by earworm hooks and masterful leftfield pop songwriting. It’s organized clamor.

Just a year after the release of his acclaimed LP Tyrannical Vibes, the prolific composer and Brooklyn-based songwriter Michael Kolb is back with another project under his last name, Power of Thought. Where Tyrannical Vibes is a heavily orchestrated labor of love, Power of Thought is an exercise in spontaneity, in working closely with friends to prove that clever songwriting and groovy arrangements make for an achievement in creative power. While Kolb projects are not known for subtlety, Power of Thought has a particularly exciting maximalism, as the live recording process between Kolb and his bandmates yields a fanciful, free-flowing exchange between keys, clarinet, vocals, percussion, and more across six tracks.

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