EXETER: Cavern

Friday 26th August, 2016

8:00pm

Event information

MASSICOT - ALL FEMALE BAND FROM GENEVA + HOUSEWIVES (FAUX DISCX)
https://massicot.bandcamp.com

"With the aggressiveness of a tiger in Formica, Massicot oscillates between frank and noisy moments and hypnotic, repetitive phases.
An obsessive, rhythmic guitar, a modelled bass, a violin as an free electron, tropical kraut drums led by Latvian poetry form a mass, a constellation of electrical dinosaurs, imported pineapples, cloud-drawings, intricate rhythms and Dada-jokes." Digital In Berlin

A CAVERN/SPACEX CO PROMOTION. Doors 8-late. £5 adv. 18+ (bring ID)

The Geneva quartet MASSICOT sounds as if it can barely keep its own energy under control. The no-frills, bone-dry guitar sound oscillates between hypnotically repetitive passages and noisy outbursts. The quartet's songs are reduced to mere skeletons that burst with intensity. Simone Aubert plays rhythm guitar with a manic energy; Lea Jaecklin coaxes sounds from her violin that have more to do with electronics than with a stringed instrument. Drummer Colline Grosjean works her way from Funk to
Krautrock to tropical beats and back. And in addition to her work as a singer, Mara Krastina plays a charming, bright red mini-bass.

Housewives' sound (or noise) is indebted to the scratch and scrawl of No Wave and Post Punk. Melody is often tossed aside in favour of clanging dissonance and sharp
rhythmic turns. This Heat's Charles Hayward noted 'a sort of monochromatic surliness slowly warms up to a barely controlled anger, hypnotic and building from the simplest
elements' in Housewives' sound. The influence of the likes of Luigi Russolo, Steve Reich and Phillip Glass can also be found within the space and noise of the group's DNA.
Upset The Rhythm put it best: 'their songs creep out of chaos into urgent bursts of energy and loud focus.'