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Gardens & Villa/ American Wrestlers Oct. 2nd at UFO Factory
Gardens & Villa is the project of five college friends from Santa Barbara, formed following the collapse of a noisier post-punk band and a hitch-hiking journey up the west coast. Members Chris Lynch, Adam Rasmussen, Levi Hayden, Shane McKillop began playing in earnest as Gardens & Villa in 2008. The name is pulled from the location of their house on Villa Street, and the property's lovely garden to which they tend. The music they make is very much connected to coastal city they call home the stoney bike rides, dance parties, a scene free of judgment. The band refers to this Santa Barbara feeling as "coco vibes." For two weeks in the summer of 2010, the band camped behind visionary and now-labelmate Richard Swift's Oregon studio. No shower, no kitchen, but all the magic you could ask for. After taking a band oath to always play all parts live a la Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense the band added member Dusty Ineman to supremely execute the live incarnation of the band.
The move to Missouri saw American Wrestlers take form, recording in a tiny, remote house, on a Tascam 8-track and "the cheapest pawn shop instruments [he] could afford".
'I Can Do No Wrong' sees shimmery guitar-work draw upon that feeling of a Midwestern summer's stifling heat. Driven along by a crackling beat, it's a stripped back approach to garage-rock that focuses on melody and avoids the all-too-common desire to drench everything in layer-upon-layer of fuzz.
"I like to write real songs that survive all on their own," he explains of the sound. "One human and one instrument. Just the human even." Melodic and hazy, its ramshackle surface hides an attention to detail that leaves the 'lo-fi' tag dead in the water.
"The lo-fi thing was all unintentional," he confirms. "This was me trying my hardest to keep all the different sounds and layers under control. Make the reverbs and chorus sound nice and get just the right amount of overdrive from the multi-track's inputs, while at the same time trying to make sure I kept the natural sounds and feels of the real sources the music was coming from."
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LocationUFO Factory (View)
2110 Trumbull St
Detroit, MI 48216
United States
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| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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