• Increase font size
  • Decrease font size
  • Default font size
  • mar08 color
  • dec07 color
  • nov07 color
  • oct07 color
  • sep07 color
  • default color
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 2:48 pm CST
Options
Home arrow News arrow Scene Showcase: Luke's Angels
Scene Showcase: Luke's Angels Print E-mail
Written by Rob van Alstyne   
Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 03:06 PM
Image
Luke's Angels
It was touch and go for awhile there with promising local quartet Luke’s Angels. After enduring line-up fluctuations and a lengthy time away from the studio before completing their sophomore album this past spring real life intervened and pushed the band to the background once more when lead guitarist Melissa Kalpin suffered a rupture appendix while giving birth this past August. Now that Kalpin’s fully mended Luke’s Angels are ready to unveil Paulopilis, the long awaited follow-up to their 2003 debut, an album which garnered plenty of praise on the local scene for it’s way with fuzzed-out pop, drawing favorable comparisons to ’90s rocker grrl groups like the Breeders and Throwing Muses thanks to front woman Jennie Kalpin’s demure vocal stylings and her bands appealingly direct hooks.

Listen to “In June” from Paulopolis


This time around the Kalpin sisters are backed by bassist Josh Richardson from the Flavor Crystals (who also happens to be Jennifer’s husband) and drummer Nick Hook (who can certainly assess the validity of any Breeder’s comparisons first hand as he once pounded the skins for the Kelley Deal 6000). Although Paulopolis is a bit of a one-trick pony, it’s a very enjoyable trick, easily digested rough and tumble garage pop whose shaggy early ’60s aesthetic is smoothed out by the Kalpin’s bubblegum harmonies. To top it off the Kalpin’s clearly have a sense of humor about being wives and mothers in the all-too-frequently boys club world of indie-rock as evidenced on “Sugar Rush” (“This Betty Crocker is a real rocker …  And if you’re not in the mood/She’ll feed you angel food/Crank up her amp/’Til your fingers snap”).  

Luke's Angels MySpace

COMING UP: Luke’s Angels play the CD release show for Paulopolis on Saturday, February 9th at the Hexagon Bar. With opening acts Wild Animals, Deep Pool, Birds of Virginia. 9 p.m. Free. 21+.

Image
Last Updated: Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 03:30 PM
 
[ Back ]

Featured Concerts


Friday On My Mind: He (Still) Doesn’t Wanna Be President

Image

The inimitable Curtiss A on Franken, Dylan, and the origins of his 32–year-old anti-classic.

Advertisement
Advertisement