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"Jagged new-new wave minimalism meets euphoric Exchange basement maximalism: you won’t BELIEVE what happens next!!! Chicago’s Clickbait are a four-person dance-punk army in the fight against surly crankwave ubiquity, packed to the hilt with playful hooks, disco anthem rhythms, and tongue-in-cheek vocal punch. Ones to watch for real FFO: ESG, The Raincoats, Pulsallama, Shopping, Judy & The Jerks, Gauche."
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A gig held at Exchange on Monday 24th November. The event starts at 19:15.
Clickbait
With MP3 Chainsaw and Beauty Sleep
7pm doors
£10 Adv
In the strange margins of the midwestern punk matrix, far from the micro genre divinations of ‘egg-’, or ‘chain-’, the disappointingly codified consensus sounds of post-punk in dour coffee shops everywhere, arrives Clickbait. The band’s members are creative workers with nonstop energy - setmaker/stylists, toy designers, poets, non-standard record shop owners - and their combined talents create a live show - like an avant-garde musical revue with Bauhausian costumes and popping colors - as a lo-fi Gesamtkunstwerk. More so than any band I’ve recorded, Clickbait have a personal focus on the obscure insights of punk’s suppressed and underheard histories, and I believe their willingness to travel deep into their music’s defiled archive has led them to a signature sound. Here, a formally strict rhythm section gives way to spontaneous aesthetics in guitar and voice. Sandra’s commanding voice is in the thick of it all - playacting, yelling pissed, rehashing neurotic monologues we are not supposed to hear.
We decided to cut this record live, unfussily, without much computational processing, in pursuit of a raw sound ideal. A pleasure!
- Caufield Schnug, Sweeping Promises
“During a time in which so much of the post-punk landscape is becoming formulaic, repetitive, and uninspiring, groups like Clickbait offer an essential alternative to the alternative.”
- Far Out Magazine (UK)
Please note the basement is not wheelchair accessible and is accessed by a narrow enclosed staircase. For more accessibility info, please email [email protected]
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
With MP3 Chainsaw and Beauty Sleep
7pm doors
£10 Adv
In the strange margins of the midwestern punk matrix, far from the micro genre divinations of ‘egg-’, or ‘chain-’, the disappointingly codified consensus sounds of post-punk in dour coffee shops everywhere, arrives Clickbait. The band’s members are creative workers with nonstop energy - setmaker/stylists, toy designers, poets, non-standard record shop owners - and their combined talents create a live show - like an avant-garde musical revue with Bauhausian costumes and popping colors - as a lo-fi Gesamtkunstwerk. More so than any band I’ve recorded, Clickbait have a personal focus on the obscure insights of punk’s suppressed and underheard histories, and I believe their willingness to travel deep into their music’s defiled archive has led them to a signature sound. Here, a formally strict rhythm section gives way to spontaneous aesthetics in guitar and voice. Sandra’s commanding voice is in the thick of it all - playacting, yelling pissed, rehashing neurotic monologues we are not supposed to hear.
We decided to cut this record live, unfussily, without much computational processing, in pursuit of a raw sound ideal. A pleasure!
- Caufield Schnug, Sweeping Promises
“During a time in which so much of the post-punk landscape is becoming formulaic, repetitive, and uninspiring, groups like Clickbait offer an essential alternative to the alternative.”
- Far Out Magazine (UK)
Please note the basement is not wheelchair accessible and is accessed by a narrow enclosed staircase. For more accessibility info, please email [email protected]
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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