DRIFTS: Com Truise residency, with Frances Rose, Teeel
Thursday // Doors at 8:00
$10.00
At first glance, the gorgeous ladies of Frances Rose have a few factors working against them- there’s already a well known artist named Frankie Rosie, and their lead single, Vampire, has a title that has come to represent an all too familiar vapid teen angst cliché. But get into the music- it’s reminiscent of The Veronicas’ driving dance beats pushing phenomenal female vocals and backing catchy melodies (which carries its own cultural baggage).
Frances Rose is catchy, original, and billowing with artistic merit, not to mention fantastic songwriting. Honestly, these girls could be writing songs for pop superstars. Give the lead single a chance, it will be on repeat, quickly surpassing the catchiness of the moguls dominating the airwaves, and revealing a lyrical accessibility that somehow turns the metaphor of a vampire into something relevant. Personally, I can’t get enough of them, and with their current track record (publishing contracts and such), I’d say come see them while you still could.
They’re joining Com Truise at the second show of his residency right here at The Paperbox on November 7th. Get your tickets here.
Com Truise
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Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New York and operating out of a 12'-overrun apartment in Princeton, New Jersey. An admitted synth obsessive, Com Truise is the maker of an experimental and bottom heavy style he calls "mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk". Haley's been making music on the side for roughly a decade—going through pseudonyms like toothbrushes (Sarin Sunday, SYSTM, Airliner)—first as a DJ, and currently, as an excavator of softer, window-fogging synth-wave.
Frances Rose
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Sarah Frances and Michelle Rose are the haunting downtown duo Frances Rose. The classically trained sisters have played music together their entire lives since their childhood in the Hudson Valley. Their sound mixes dirty grunge guitars with 80's new wave and 90's techno beats with soaring pop vocals. Accomplished songwriters, Frances Rose signed with Warner/Chappell through Neon Gold Records and have since worked with Xaphoon Jones (Ellie Goulding, Chiddy Bang), 2am Club (RCA), J Dens (Kat Dahlia) and Kinetics & One Love (Paramore, B.o.B.). "Haunting pop" -Paper Magazine "Romantic-grunge-tinged electro-pop" -Nylon Magazine "A-list pop" -MTV Iggy
Teeel
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Inspired by italo, electro and the 80s new wave movement, Teeel aka Jim Smith credits his sound to marathon movie watching and being an obsessive gear head. Crammed in a 10x10 teal painted room, stacked with synthesizers and walls covered with vintage Moog ads, Jim creates music that is perhaps best described as hypnotic soft-vocal, synthpop.