The Cush - Between the Leaves

From Sam....
Gawd!! I hope the walls don’t cave in on us THIS SUNDAY, Strangers!!
Sunday, May 13 will be the loudest Stay Strange yet!! Frank Melendez and Riververb! Also on the bill is the equally loud Actuary from Los Angeles. Plus a rare performance by artist Gerritt Wittmer.
SUNDAY, MAY 13-
RIVERVERB/ACTUARY/GERRITT WITTMER
THE KAVA GALLERY - 2804 KETTNER BLVD - 7PM - $5.00 - ALL AGES SHOW!
Riververb is always in a constant change, and I hear that the latest incarnation is the best so far! Judge for yourself! it’s some heavy stuff! Face morphing grinder sludge. Last time Riververb played, no slayed, the smoke turned black from monolithic chunks of acid-noise.
Actuary shake the shit loose! Los Angeles breeds some sick stuff and this by no means drops the ball. Not only are this tunes in your face, it’s in your skull too! Mean ass nitro venom. Gory!!
Gerritt Wittmer is an artist in the darkest sense possible. I’m not sure what he’ll be doing at this month’s Stay Strange, but if it’s anything like his performance at LUFF, it’s going to be scary!!!

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The Cush - Between the Leaves Nielsen 5.12.10

The Cush's new record is an REM (not the band) away from floating. It's like taking that deep breath, holding it an extra few seconds and breathing it out with meaning. It's simple and soothing with just enough up to not be boring. It's got blissful amounts of wet Pink Floyd vocals floating on a cloud of heavily produced Purple Drank. Simple shadows of guitars and drums create the framework for youthful heroin chic vocal sweeps sitting on a foundation of a well wrought sound. Pleasure resides in the reverb drench on the whole thing. It's blurry like looking outside of a train window on a rainy day as things speed by. It all gets slowed down with delicate guitars and beautiful organ sweeps.

It's nostalgic and sentimental yet positive and uplifting. Ah youth, that sad youth that doesn't really feel the deep pain of middle age, it's a sweet pain, a simpler revelry. Languorous drums and soulful sweet stretched out singing drifts like the tide. The blissed out and mellow ring with multiple effects and drums that sound like they are recorded in another room with spring reverb. Husband and wife from Texas escape to find selves, record the soundtrack to their lives in some Vermont hills surrounded by UFOs, tape delays and space heaters from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Massive space echo tape delay, self recorded lush time scapes, beautiful dreams, out of this world Texas aliens fly to Vermont.