[ chamber-folk/art-pop ]
Semi-local acoustic chamber ensemble Cuddle Magic manage the neat trick of being utterly adorable in a way that doesn’t make you take their warmly cerebral, obliquely poignant classical-jazz-folk-pop sound — they don’t exactly play any of these kinds of music, but they don’t exactly not play them, either — any less seriously. Their third full-length, Info Nympho (Fyo), includes compositions by fully half of the band’s 10 members, and while its title is an apt idiom for our instant-gratification search-engine culture (see “Disgrace Note,” which scans like a Wikipedia page on suicides by creative curmudgeons set to verse), they generally operate at a deliberate, old-fashioned pace that invites and occasions some welcome mental readjustments.
Fri., Oct. 19, 10:30 p.m., $10, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 215-928-0770, tinangel.com.
