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Video Wed Jul 27 2011
Video Premiere: "August Song" by Roommate
Kent Lambert's Roommate has been hard at work through Chicago for years now, dating back to 2001 but really coming alive on 2006's Songs the Animals Taught Us. This year's Guilty Rainbow showcases Lambert and band finding a delicate groove in their lo-fi electronic style. With "August Song", the album reaches a point of despair buried in organic textures of synths, programming, violin, vibraphone and, of course, a Buchla Music Easel. Former Chicagoan Jodie Mack (now teaching animation at Dartmouth) worked on its mesmerizing and trippy video that Gapers Block has the pleasure of premiering... right now.
Roommate opens for the Dead Milkmen's Joe Jack Talcum at Quenchers on Thursday, the 28th. The show's 21+ and starts at 9PM. Quenchers is at the corner of Western & Fullerton.