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Kyle Gustafson/FTWP - Screen Vinyl Image performed a brief but powerful set at the Black Cat’s Backstage on Wednesday night.
Text SizePrintE-mailReprints By Patrick Foster, Local duo Screen Vinyl Image played a brief and bracing show at the Black Cat’s Backstage on Wednesday night, turning the weaknesses of the band’s latest record into strengths.
The music that Jake and Kim Reid make on their recent “Strange Behavior” is overly murky and ponderous, but live, with their bank of rhythm machines set to Chest Rattle and their guitars turned to Super Echo, their dark-hued take on shoegaze made perfect sense.
Loading...CommentsWeigh InCorrections?Throughout the 40-minute set — with the house lights turned off and the stage illuminated only by a slide show and the occasional strobe — it was clear that songs such as “Revival” were made to be felt as well as heard.
When the pair turned to “Angelica Take Me Down,” a song by their former band Alcian Blue, it was an illuminating moment: The older tune was speedier and thinner than the songs that came before and after it, and clearly demonstrated the current outfit’s sharper, more powerful focus.
Drawing inspiration from a slew of iconic acts — the influence of Suicide, Lush, Joy Division and the Jesus and Mary Chain are easily discernible in “My Confession” and “Night Trip” — Screen Vinyl Image is hardly working the cutting edge. Yet, the single-
minded dedication the duo displayed indicated that they couldn’t care less what decade it is.
Which may explain why the standout track on “Strange Behavior” is titled “We Don’t Belong.” With every stylized vocal line from Jake and every icy strum of Kim’s highly reverbed guitar, it became clear that the duo relishes their out-of-time strategy.
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