Hundred Waters

They're called Hundred Waters, but it's abundantly evident that, elementally speaking, this Gainesville, Fla., quintet is far better represented by air.

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Hundred Waters

Sat., Sept. 1, 9:30 p.m., $12, with Julia Holter, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave.

They’re called Hundred Waters, but it’s abundantly evident that, elementally speaking, this Gainesville, Fla., quintet is far better represented by air. (In Ayurvedic terms — which feels appropriate somehow — they’re clearly Vatas.) It’s in their spacious, gracefully hushed arrangements, where stately neo-baroque faerie-folk commingles with the gentlest of lap-pop glitchery and sputtering digital twinkles; in their gauzy juxtaposition of the cerebral and the fantastical; in the effortless way they drift through nigh-unchartable time signatures; and especially in Nicole Miglis’ breathy, frequently choralized whipped-cream wisp of a voice (a dead ringer for Twin Sister’s Andrea Estella, with a dollop of Regina Spektor loopiness and a whiff of Joanna Newsom). And now, after initially releasing their self-titled debut on the tiny Elestial Sound label, they’ve signed with Skrillex — a fiery, Pitta sort if ever there was one, with seemingly zero musical commonalities save that they both own computers — for a remix EP and forthcoming rerelease on his Owsla imprint. Well, here’s to seeking balance in all things.

Sat., Sept. 1, 9:30 p.m., $12, with Julia Holter, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684,
johnnybrendas.com.

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