Thursday 2/16: Cate Le Bon, Pioneer @ The Frequency

Cate Le Bon

Cate Le Bon is a Welsh singer-songwriter influenced by the psychedelic leanings of Syd Barrett, Donovan, The Velvet Underground, and Vashti Bunyan. That said, she bears no trace of the cloying affectations that have come to characterize the Devendra Banhart school of “freak-folk.”

In addition to being beautiful, her songs are simple and guileless and charmingly strange––they’re full of little musical quips, like the unexpected phrase of an 8-bit sample in an otherwise very solemn track, or a tinny, adorably easy-to-play guitar solo plopped into the middle of an airy ballad––and perhaps most of all, they seem delightfully oblivious to the ruling trends of the indie blogosphere. She’s the real deal, in other words.

Go see her play.

Thursday, February 16. W/ Pioneer. The Frequency. 121 W. Main Street. 9pm. $10.

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