Wed Oct 22 2014 9:00 PM
- Iceage
- Helm
- Father Murphy
With ICEAGE’s second album,You’re Nothing, the Copenhagan punk four-piece pushed the bands singular, throw-back hardcore to further extremes within their short, aggressive structure. Known for their explosive live shows, ICEAGE returns to the Bottle for the first time since playing here in support of that second album and we’re damn excited to welcome the four-piece back to our stage. This time around they’ll be slinging their third full-length, again via Matador, bringing their menacing and forceful energy to an even wider – and probably more rabid – audience. HELM are a five-piece progressive, post-rock/metal band from the Gold Coast, Australia. The song structures are more complex, the technicality of the playing is stepped up a notch, and the renewed energy within the band shines through to create an intelligent, well thought-out Aussie prog-rock album. At it’s heaviest, the crushing riffs weigh down on the listener with the weight of the world, while on the other end of the scale, the lighter more melodic sections inspire hope, and overflow with a maturity not yet heard on earlier HELM releases. FATHER MURPHY is the sound of the Catholic sense of Guilt, a downward spiral aiming at the bottom of the hollow, and then digging even deeper. After having furiously performed all over Europe, toured North America with DEERHOOF, DIRTY BEACHES, and XIU XIU, been praised by the Archdruid Julian Cope, among lots of others, Father Murphy has become one of the most mysterious and enigmatic musical entities coming out of Italy, part of that community that Simon Reynolds started to call the new “Italian Occult psychedelia”.