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Motopony, Tristen, Big Harp & The Ghost & The Darkness at The Domino Room
Motopony
There's a long, twisty story that comes with this batch of music," singer-songwriter-guitarist Daniel Blue says of the new Motopony EP Idle Beauty, his band's second release and Fast Plastic/ eOne Music debut. "It's kind of all over the place, but I think it reflects where we've been, what we've been through, and what we're in the process of becoming."
Indeed, the Seattle outfit's long and sometimes convoluted journey to its current stature as one of America's hottest and most acclaimed young bands has been an unconventional one. In the TK years since chief visionary Blue first launched it as his creative alter ego, Motopony has evolved through a variety of permutations, into its current form as an expansive sextet whose raw-nerved mix of vivid lyrical explorations, inventive sonic textures and hard-rocking melodic punch mark it as a singularly potent musical force.
Motopony's resonant merging of emotional warmth and hard-hitting assertiveness is prominent throughout Idle Beauty's five sonically diverse yet consistently potent tracks, which range from the infectious, anthemic exhortation of "Get Down (Come Up") to the humanistic uplift of "About A Song" to the intimate immediacy of "Buffalo Medicine" to the epic flight of "She Is Spirit' to the haunting spoken-word excursion of "Breakthru."
Motopony has already achieved considerable national attention, thanks to the surprise success of its self-titled 2011 debut album, which became a grass-roots hit despite its low-key release on the independent Tiny Ogre label. The album sold over 10,000 copies and was embraced by an impressive groundswell of fans, critics and alternative radio stations, which helped to make the infectious tune "King of Diamonds" a viral hit.
Tristen
"Her strength seems to reside in her ability to be musically versatile. Utilizing various orchestrations, Tristen weaves a glistening web of thoughtful and extremely mature melodies that tremble with undeniable power." -American Songwriter
"Pop hooks and pure inspiration" NPR All Things Considered
Her addictive debut is full of such moments: catchy refrains with multiple meanings, ear-tugging melodies with hidden hooks. She flaunts a philosophy major's palette amidst echoes of vintage rockabilly and girl group pop: Gods battle, queens bid their rule, girlfriends enable druggy lovers. Rolling Stone
"Tristen Gaspadarek has crafted a confident, poignant folk-pop debut that never wants for hooks, and manages to undercut its sing-songiness at every turn with unflinching lyrics and mature songwriting."
- The Onion AV Club
"Tristen comes from Nashville, TN and the Jenny Lewis school of modern, God-fearing country, but she caught up to her contemporaries and surpassed them in one fell swoop. As soon as the vocals kick in on the opener "Eager for Your Love," it's impossible not to listen to this record all the way through. Man this girl can sing." -Bust
"She's been Nashville's best-kept secret, but this single-named chanteuse is poised for bigger and better things with the recent release of her sprightly new album of baroque folk-pop. "Charlatans at the Garden Gate'' glimmers with traces of Neko Case, the Shangri-Las, and maybe just a touch of Loretta Lynn.
The Boston Globe
"With or without Tristen's acute capacity to portray relationships and ideology gone wrong, Charlatans is a musical document billowing over with rich, vintage hues and irrepressible hooks, her reverence for the lions of pop music and confident sense of self all meted out in the same breath."-Nashville Scene
"This week, with the release of her confident debut, Tristen reminds us just what it was we loved about her to begin with."- Paste
"She brings a blossoming pop sensibility to her witty, not-as-sweet-as-it-seems country."
-Wall Street Journal
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51 Northwest Greenwood Avenue
Bend, OR 97701
United States
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