REVIEW: Starfucker @ Haverford College

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REVIEW: Starfucker @ Haverford College

POSTED: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 8:19 PM

Filed Under: Music Show

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The weirdness.

Before heading out to the Starfucker show, I tried to convince my friend to come along with this text:

synths, drum machines and way more instruments than people. Its low fi pop u can dance to if u want and sometimes they play in drag. Great cindy lauper cover.

All these promises came true, but so did the realization that we were in a dorm room basement full of sloppy college freshmen and even some high schoolers cutting their curfews close.

I would have felt creepy being there, but somehow the male bass player's short sundress and smeared lipstick justified most of the weirdness.

The band played musical chairs with their instruments, trading off several times mid-song, and they managed to blend intentional feedback with falsetto choruses. The crowd's energy swelled with the funky electronica, but the band didn't seem to notice and just ended their songs without capitalizing on the momentum, dropping the ball instead of dropping the beat.

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