Live Review: Telepathe - Whelan's, Dublin

Bit of a disappointing one.

http://www.state.ie/2010/08/live-reviews/telepathe-%E2%80%93-whelan%E2%80%99s-dublin/

Patrick Kelleher, Meljoann to support Telepathe

Telepathe's upcoming visit to Whelan's on 14th August promises to be a great night, and now there's added excitement in store: Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands and fast-rising electro-funk purveyor Meljoann will be supporting on the night. Kelleher recently followed up his acclaimed You Look Cold album with the 'Contact Sports' 7", while Meljoann's Tour Guide EP should be followed by an album in September.

WOLF005 - Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands - Contact Sports 7" by SkinnyWolves

Meljoann - Exit by Nialler9

01 Tour Guide by meljoann

Skinny Wolves mixes collected

Dublin-based record label Skinny Wolves have compiled eleven mixes from 2010 compiled for them by various bands, including new ones from Cap Pas Cap and Somadrome.

Skinny Wolves Mixes by SkinnyWolves

They've also made available a compilation of tracks from artists playing up-and-coming Skinny Wolves events, including Telepathe and These Are Powers:

Upcoming Skinny Wolves - Mix by SkinnyWolves

These Are Powers play at Andrew's Lane Theatre with support from Cap Pas Cap, Thread Pulls and Grey Mayhem next Thursday July 29th. It's a late show, tickets 13 euro.

Telepathe to play Whelan's

Very exciting news. Brooklyn-based Telepathe will be playing a show in Whelan's on August 14th, courtesy of Skinny Wolves (who've previously released a split 7" featuring Telepathe and Effi Briest reworking eachother's tracks). The duo - Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudis - released the excellent Dance Mother last year, a record of sublime minimal avant-pop that was produced by TV on the Radio's David Sitek.

Telepathe - So Fine by The Recommender

Albums of the Year, 2009 : 10 - Telepathe - Dance Mother

"...it's doubtful anyone could have anticipated anything as wonderfully poppy and accessible as the material on Telepathe's sublime debut Dance Mother, especially for those who were already familiar with the girls in their earlier incarnation as purveyors of the dark and dense drone sounds that dominated their Farewell Forest release. Of course, with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek on board as producer, this isn't pop as we know it, rather it's an avant-garde distillation, twisted and transformed into something genuinely exciting and pleasantly challenging but which thankfully never veers into the impenetrable.

Fans may already be familiar with the slow-build codeine balladry of "I Can't Stand It," and the endearingly naïve future-funk of "Chrome's on It," both slightly spruced up here, but with their new material the girls have unexpectedly managed to trump those songs that already garnered them so much attention, coming up with songs that possess the kind of expansive thoughtfulness that eludes so much of the dance genre: "The Devils Trident" builds on a mystifying incantation of intriguingly obtuse stream-of-conscious words and crescendos, with the girls' united voices seemingly rising as if to battle the brass that unobtrusively elevates the song into a thing of transcendental wonder; "Lights Go Down" is a tense, skittering gem that rides on an arching synth line possessed of a strangely regal malevolence; while "So Fine," with it's propulsive electro beat, swooning vocals, and devastatingly simple melody, should become one of the year's defining songs."

- Robin Carolan, Slant Magazine