TONIGHT: Isaac Delusion/Cruiser/The Downtown Club @ North Star Bar

Tonight's show at North Star Bar is a trip through a reverb-drenched sonic forest.

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TONIGHT: Isaac Delusion/Cruiser/The Downtown Club @ North Star Bar

POSTED: Friday, March 1, 2013, 3:28 PM
Filed Under: Music Show

Tonight’s show at North Star Bar is a trip through a reverb-drenched sonic forest. The Downtown Club, a Philly-based trio rooted in British post-punk like Gang of Four and Public Image Ltd., will get you moving early on. Metronomic drumlines and gritty picked bass lock in tandem with singer April Harkanson’s vocals, alternating between hushed utterances and anguished belting, sitting on top of the whole mix. Stay for Cruiser, the project of local musician Andy States, and their jangly and timeless take on dream pop. Their latest EP (produced by Jeremy Park, who also produced Youth Lagoon’s The Year of Hibernation) features jangly guitars and States’s baritone moving in and out of melodic soundscapes as beautiful as they are catchy. Paris duo Isaac Delusion closes the night with party-ready synth-driven music combining hip-hop beats with light-footed vocals that’ll have you leave the venue with a smile on your face. Of course, be sure to bring your dancing shoes, as silly as they may look at whatever gallery you’re hitting up right before, because this line-up begs it of you.

Fri., March 1, 9 p.m., $8-$10, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-787-0488, northstarbar.com.

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