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SWN presents WOMEN

Presented by: SWN Presents
0CARDIFF: The Globe
PTuesday 31st August, 2010
N7:30pm

Event information

SWN presents

WOMEN
plus support

Tues 31st August
The Globe
Albany Road, Cardiff
7.30pm
£8adv
This is 16+ show

The debut album by Women was recorded over 4 months on ghetto blasters and old tape machines in Chad VanGaalen's basement, an outdoor culvert and a crawl space. Sometimes light and spacious, at other times eerie and dense with an ominous weight, this self titled album touches upon Velvet Underground, Swell Maps or This Heat while not really having any obvious precursors - a lo-fi masterpiece cloaked in layers of vibrato and guitar wash.
Noisy and claustrophobic songs smash through junkyard trash brawls while others lift and soar across the landscape of 50's-informed pop; a contradiction and an enigma, the debut album by Women found its way onto summertime pool break-in boombox mixes and the turntables of record store devotees.

Women is Patrick Flegel, Matthew Flegel, Michael Wallace and Christopher Reimer, and the four young men live in Calgary, Canada.

".... straddles the 1960s' divide between the Warhol crowd's speed-addled New York cynicism and the echoes of psychedelic San Francisco that bubbled up across the pond in the fey, catchy pop of UK groups like the Zombies."
- Pitchfork, on the song "Black Rice"

"This is freak-rock, nursed on psychedelia and prog, but without pretense."
- VUE Weekly

Women "effortlessly mix noise, static and infectious hooks."
- HeroHill

a new album is set to drop this summer...

Venue information

CARDIFF: The Globe
0125 Albany Road
Roath
Cardiff
CF24 3NT
> www.swnfest.com
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