Skinny Wolves Presents:

EFFI BRIEST (NYC, LOOG RECORDS)

EFFIE BRIEST are seven enchanting, stylish and talented ladies that reside mostly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They mix African, psych, krautrock, and goth into something completely new and their own. There have been comparisons to early Siousxie, but it's primitive animism is as evocative of late period Slits. With its dubby drum & bass, skinny reggae guitar, backwards acoustic counterpoint, accordion, syncopating percussion, chanting vocals, their debut 7" on Loog seems a fair indication of where the band is headed.

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DETAILS:

EFFI BRIEST
w/ Special Guests Party Weirdo

Followed by Skinny Wolves Club
w/ Skinny Wolves & guest DJs...

Friday 18th April

Transformer Venue, (new venue below Thomas Reads), Crane Lane, off Dame Street, Dublin

Doors : Bands : 8.00pm - 11.30pm / Club : until 2am
Limited Tickets Available : 15e from tickets.ie, City Discs - Dublin & Plugd Records - Cork

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ABOUT EFFI BRIEST

http://www.myspace.com/effibriest

ABOUT EFFI BRIEST

If there's a reference point for the music of Brooklyn's EFFI BRIEST, it lies somewhere in a twilight zone between the exploratory abandon of early D.I.Y. and a sort of visionary macabre, like the sound of a ghost band at a seance.

Not to say that the sounds these six women make are strictly ethereal or morose; voices, guitars, accordion and an ocarina form a free-leaning haze over a backbone of shaker-garage. The communal aspect is key. You can see it's the convergence of seven distinct personalities, pulling from as many sources as are vital to them without standing in anyone's shadow. In a sense they're writing their own rules, and that comes across in the originals.

An EFFI BRIEST song may start out in one sonic terrain and wind up after a few scenic asides in another realm entirely, but there's an underlying unity that belies a certain acuity of creative purpose. This spirit, unity and creativity stretches back through a long lineage of influences including: Can, Lilliput, Kate Bush, Liquid Liquid, and Soft Machine

In the last year or so, you might have been lucky enough to catch them on tour in California supporting Sunburned Hand of the Man, at San Francisco's Mission Creek Festival or LA's Arthur Nights, or as the house band at an afterparty for New York's Deitch Projects.

There's a full length in the cards, but in the meantime Loog Records is proud to present their debut single, 'MIRRORRIM' b/w 'Newlyweds Song'. The A side is an original written — with a nod to the literary experiments of the Oulipo — entirely in palindromes, and the reverse is a cover of Jim Pepper's little known classic.

EFFI BRIEST:

Vocals, Auto Harp – Kelsey Barrett
Bass – Elizabeth Hart
Drums – Corinee Jones
Guitar – Sara Shaw
Accordion, Clarinet, Vocals – Rebecca Squires
Percussion – Jessica Stathos

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MORE INFO:

Please email for more info, or check out these sites...

www.SkinnyWolves.com
www.myspace.com/SkinnyWolves
www.myspace.com/SkinnyWolvesRecords