Eyelids
EYELIDS at Cactus Club/Milwaukee w/ Model Citizen
Cactus Club
2496 S Wentworth Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53207
Jun 15, 2023
8:00 PM CDT
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EYELIDS: Eyelids’ new album, A Colossal Waste of Light, does an excellent job of framing the quintet as one of today’s most compelling purveyors of lopsided guitar pop workouts and earworm-laden vocal melodies. It also proves that great guitar pop can still evoke
favorites from a glorious past – the penetrating moodiness of XTC’s Black Sea, or
R.E.M.’s Fables of the Reconstruction, comes to mind – while refusing to waste time on
idle nostalgia.
Whether it’s ‘Swinging in the Circus’ with its poignant musings on both stage fright and
feeling like you don’t measure up, or the breezy Drums and Wires anthemic pop of ‘They
Said So’, A Colossal Waste of Light speaks of and to the present, a time when light and
dark can’t help but feel firmly intertwined.
MODEL CITIZEN:
Matt Patton and Mike Gaut formed Model Citizen just as their beloved Alabama punk scene was being overtaken by an onslaught of cookie-cutter melodic hardcore bands at the tail end of the 1990s. Neither of these young men had any formal music education; they were not athletic, nor had either of them experienced anything that could possibly be construed as “a metal phase”.
Instead, they bonded over a love of The Who and other punkish prototypes, as well as a
propensity for getting loud. Very, very loud.
Gaut went on to drum for Chattanooga, TN’s brother-fronted rock unit Bohannons. Patton joined up on bass with Alabama’s Dexateen’s and currently holds down the low end with Athens’, GA’s Drive-By Truckers. Model Citizen has reunited with bassist Craig Gates, a member of the band’s most solid mid-2000s lineup. The addition of keys player and fellow Drive-By Trucker Jay Gonzales on the new record, Live At Dial Back Sound, brings the band closer to the sound the trio originally envisioned. The band expects to make all new music in the not-so-distant future
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Members of The Decemberists, Guided By Voices, Camper Van Beethoven, Malkmus/Jicks continue to swarm outwards with their latest LP and tour for 'A Colossal Waste Of Light'. Advance tickets, LP, merch over at musicofeyelids.com or musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com
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