MOTR Pub Presents:
Event: Crush of Souls (Paris, FR), The Serfs, Winkie (NYC)
Date: Thursday, March 6
Times:
8 doors, 8:30 show
Venue: MOTR Pub | 1345 Main St. Cincinnati, OH 45202
Admission: $10 advance, partially seated
Ages: 18+
Tickets/Information: https://www.motrpub.com/shows/
Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/
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About CRUSH OF SOULS:
Having bid adieu to the hustle and bustle of New York, and greeted the rich culture of France with open arms, Charles Rowell, famed for his work with Crocodiles, Flowers of Evil, and Issue, set about fashioning a fresh start in 2020 with a new project, Crush of Souls. With a distinctive union of synthpop and gothic stylings, the band burst forth a darkly beguiling sound, both novel and nostalgic.
Imagine, if you will, Nick Cave’s melancholic melodies serenading Martin Rev’s minimalist electronic rhythm; it’s a sonic picture that merges the poetic gloom and industrial edginess. Think of the time when Stiv Bators, during The Lords of the New Church phase, would have found himself improvising in an unorthodox jam session with Wayne Hussey and Tony Wakeford. It’s an alluring thought, isn’t it? Crush of Souls embraces that spirit with an innovative fusion of musical influences that found harmony in their disparity.
-Alice Teeple, post-punk.com
CHECK OUT this official video for "Cult of Two": https://www.youtube.com/
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About WINKIE:
Outsider duo Winkie has a uniquely New York-flavoured David Lynch-meets-Cindy Sherman mystery for you to solve in the video for “This Place Is Death”. The single is the second from their forthcoming album Here Comes Success.
Layering shoegaze reverb and distortion balanced with melodic synth lines, the song is bleak, raw, and bizarre – illustrated wonderfully by the video. The band’s gallows humour shines brighter than a thousand suns in this monochromatic offering directed and edited by Stephen Franco, as a mysterious person drags a body wrapped in plastic through dark city streets – with no context or explanation.
CHECK OUT the video here: https://www.youtube.com/
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ABOUT THE SERFS:
These Serfs are identified as a “Cincinnati Electro Punk act” and they appear to have some connection to local Post Punk group Mardou.
Sonically, The Serfs reveal themselves to be a powerful and evocative coldwave outfit. They released a debut EP, Songs of Serfdom, early in 2019 and that six-song cassette has now been expanded to a full 11-track album and re-titled Sounds of Serfdom. The LP is being released on 12-inch vinyl through Berlin, Germany label Detriti Records.
The Serfs draw dark influence from a potent moment in ’70s Post Punk and New Wave, when synthesizers began to dominate the landscape and minimalism became the watchword of the day. It’s not hard to draw straight lines from The Serfs to giants of the cutting-edge synth movement of the late ’70s — Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, Cabaret Voltaire, Tubeway Army, The Units and early Devo all surface in some form or fashion in the band’s sonic architecture. This would all be little more than genre window-dressing without good songs and the Serfs have that well covered, as their songwriting is as impressive as their apparent record collections.
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More about:
CRUSH OF SOULS:
https://www.instagram.com/
https://crushofsouls.bandcamp.
WINKIE:
https://winkie.bandcamp.com
https://linktr.ee/winkieband
THE SERFS:
https://theserfsmusic.
https://www.instagram.com/
