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March 27-April 2, 2003 musicpicks Aereogramme
Listening to these experimental Scots is like watching a David Lynch movie. For most of it, you have no idea what the hell is going on, and once things begin to make sense, a curveball comes out of nowhere leaving you more perplexed than ever. But like Lynchian cinema, there is something compelling about Aereogramme, something that keeps the listener chomping at the bit for more. For fans of 2001's A Story In White, that something was the quartet's schizophrenic mastery of the quiet-loud-quiet aesthetic in non-traditional song structure, a practice reaching new levels of lunacy on their new Sleep and Release (Matador). One moment you hear bells, a cello line, a quiet organ, tender and repeated vocals reminiscent of Sigur Rós. The next moment -- and that is said without exaggeration, it's the very next damn moment -- it's all hellish guitar riffs and gut-wrenching screams that would put most death metal or hardcore acts to shame. Not that there's anything remotely hardcore about Aereogramme. These fellows come from the My Bloody Valentine school of voluminous tranquility, meaning they are complex and challenging and not everybody is going to get them, but those who do will really dig what they hear. It also means they should play perfectly alongside Philly psychedelic-drone mainstays Bardo Pond. Sat., March 29, 9 p.m., $8, with Bardo Pond, Gamelon and Circle and Square, The Khyber, 56 S. Second St , 215-238-5888. 
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