Live music: Grails @ Starline Social Club

Noise Pop 2018 Festival Presents:
Grails at Starline Social Club
with Chuck Johnson, Topographies, GDJYB
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
7pm Doors / 8pm Show / 21+

Rather than pick up where they left off, Grails take the sky-high riff-based heaviness of their earlier albums and distill it into a nuanced, widescreen opus. The perennial influences of mid-20th century Western film scores, obscure library music, and psychedelic krautrock are indelibly imprinted, but Chalice Hymnalexudes an eerie patience in unfurling the many layers of its subtle details. Produced by the band over the past five years, Chalice Hymnal bears some of the European psych and experimental hip-hop production techniques of founding members Alex Hall and Emil Amos’ other group, Lilacs & Champagne. Amos’ meditative metal band, Om, and longtime singer-songwriter project, Holy Sons, also naturally find their way into the Chalice cauldron. Rounding out their line-up, cofounder Zak Riles (also of experimental kraut-psych trio, Watter) layers synths and programming into an electronic-prog hybrid that pushes Grailsfurther into the deep end, displaying a profound resonance, both musically and emotionally. No one else sounds like Grails, and on Chalice Hymnal they sound more like themselves than ever before.

On Wednesday February 21, 2018 at 7:00 pm (ends 11:59 pm)

Category: Live Music

Price:

General Admission: USD 16.00
General Admission - Day of Show: USD 17.00

Venue: Starline Social Club, 2236 Martin Luther King Junior Way, Oakland, 94612

Links:

Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/201362-0?pid=5072