Seattle soul sisters Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White are pretty much as fresh as it gets: whip-smart, effortlessly funky and hip, and also really, really funny — never too cool (which is to say devastatingly cool enough) to get downright goofy when the moment calls for it. awE naturalE (Sub Pop) plays like a friendlier, less amorphously floaty take on the artily abstract collage-hop of their top-left associates Shabazz Palaces (with whom they’ve memorably guested), and it shows the duo to be just as adept at making quirky, juicy mincemeat of jazz breaks and scat-singing samples (the album’s entirely self-produced) as they are at politically minded but playful rhyme-saying and knowing, mellifluous neo-soul crooning. And you can’t even see their sweet synchronized stage moves (or their killer Afros) on the record.
Thu., July 26, 9 p.m., $10-$12, with Lushlife and Mast, MilkBoy Philly, 1100 Chestnut St., 215-925-MILK, milkboyphilly.com.
