Using a mixture of conventional and non-traditional recording techniques, A Lull employs anything and everything available to create beats, melodies, textures and layers of sound. The music is experimental in the ways that it takes form, but is accessible and captivating.
What the Internet and others have been saying about A Lull:
"The track runs with the same promising tribal beats and glitchy foundations from "Our Age" on this past spring's Ice Cream Bones EP, but with greater energy and urgency. Everything here buzzes, from the underlying tones to the fuzzed, almost humming chorus and occasionally electronic-sounding vocals. If the rest of Confetti follows this track, A Lull will have crafted a brave, ambitious, and unconventional production that stands to surprise and impress." Jaime DeMedici, The Onion: A.V. Club
"Chicago avant-pop sextet A Lull have a full-length scheduled to drop later this year; in the meantime, they've made a 7", "Weapons For War/Spread It All Around", available for free download over at their MySpace. The A-side features pounding, layered percussion and warm vocalizing." - Pitchfork
"A Lull sound like Chicago: The songs on the highly percussive sextet's free "Weapons For War" b/w "Spread It All Around" 7″ feature dense, eclectic, immediately catchy atmospherics that evoke a number of like-minded post-rock crews from their hometown. And then go elsewhere with it. "Weapons For War"'s from their forthcoming full-length, Confetti. No word on the looping, loping B-Side, "Spread It All Around," but it's my favorite of the two, so hopefully it made the cut." Stereogum
"A Lull is like the current crop of Blitzen Trappers and Fleet Foxes all playing at once, making a monumental mellow mess of reverb and itchy harmonies. It might be too easy to compare them to hyper-textural groups such as Grizzly Bear, since A Lull aims for a feeling of unease instead of rapture, overloading their songs with squelchy textures, bummer hooks, and dark-hued studio rattles." Christopher Weingarten, The Village Voice
"...catchy, buoyant pop out of sometimes skewed or experimental ingredients, including dark electronic ambience and sputtering synthesized percussion." Jim DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times
"A Lull creates a vast sound far more massive than the sum of its parts. Their beat-heavy brand of post-rock relies equally on instrumental rhythms as it does melodic vocal percussion...A Lull's songs inhale as much as they exhale—trading in swirling electronics and tribal beats for acoustic rhythms and harmonized vocal hooks as it breathes." www.XLR8R.com
This show is 21+, with proper ID. Tickets are $8 in advance. Music around 8pm.
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