Fauxpocalypse

Electronic music always gets pegged as being easy to make. For most of ntts subgenres, that’s not the case. At all. Brooklyn duo Beacon would be the first to tell you that. 31-year-old Jacob Gossett and 26-year-old Thomas Mullarney formed the band in 2010 as a way to create something visceral. Their newest record, L1, puts that goal to the test.

Beacon craft up cerebral electronic music, capturing both the smoothness of R&B and and the glitchy tones of electronica. With one listen, you feels like you’ve taken a sleeping pill and are undergoing a goofy dream of displaced, atmospheric pop and dark, expanding shadows. Thunderous bass and Mullarney’s vocals guide most of the tracks. It’s the flourishes of synth and analog equipment, though, that give it its shine.

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Nice Guys are back at it. The basement punks have just released their new EP, Chips in the Moonlight, and it’s all that and a bag of chips. To support the release, they’re playing a stacked show at Club Bohemia tonight, presented by Illegally Blind. Backed by Black Beach, Slow Jerks, and The Monsieurs, they’ll be sure to shake some walls. And to top it all off, the whole night is hosted by comedian Jamie Loftus.

For a taste of what’s to come, check out the music video for “Stinker” we recently shot with the band.

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