Event Listing - Music

Thu Aug 20

Stripmall Architecture

with The Love X Nowhere, and Silian Rail

Location	Date and Time
Cafe du Nord 2170 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94114 map cross street: Sanchez district: Castro/Upper Market	Thu Aug 20 (Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm)

Description

"When their longtime band, Halou, came to an end in 2008 (during a US tour with indie legend Bob Mould), Ryan and Rebecca Coseboom regrouped quickly and launched their new project, Stripmall Architecture. Stripmall Architecture often achieves an almost opiate effect, combining the intricate electronics and fragile, fallen-angel vocals of Halou with layers of gauzy guitars - both warm and fuzzy and often quite loud and confrontational. There's a sort of dizziness to the recordings due mainly to the hypnotic basslines and the coalescence of the textures the band cleverly layers to create something quite complex that can't be fully taken in without repeat listens. While it can be difficult to find a single genre into which Stripmall Architecture fits snugly, the bulk of their varied, eclectic and impressively pedigreed material seems to fall somewhere within the vast universes of noisy indie rock and early-90s shoegaze (if you're thinking of something between the anthemic atmospherics of Sigur Ros and the spangled-pop of the Cocteau Tiwns, you're in the right neighborhood).

Stripmall Architecture is currently performing live around the Bay Area while they finish up their first full-length album."
- cafedunord.com