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URL:https://scala.co.uk/events/been-stellar/
SUMMARY:Been Stellar at Scala - Thursday 28th November 2024 - 7:30 pm until
  11:00 pm 
DESCRIPTION:Scream from New York\, NY\, the first album by Been Stellar\, i
 s a remarkably brutal debut – bruised and volatile\, it captures an imag
 e of ‘20s New York that’s unrelenting and harsh\, where tenderness is 
 a finite resource burned up by the machinery of the city and human connect
 ion is a luxury product. Leaving behind the driving shoegaze of their earl
 y recordings\, the NYC-based five-piece tap into the disaffected sound and
  spirit of New York luminaries like Sonic Youth and Interpol\, as well as 
 the nihilistic\, yearning cool of Iceage and Bends-era Radiohead\, strikin
 g upon a sound that’s fearsome\, buffeting and beautiful at the same tim
 e – a tidal wave as viewed from underneath.\n\nAs its wry title implies\
 , Scream from New York\, NY\, is a record about what happens when language
  fails – between friends\, partners\, a city and its citizens – and th
 e primal scream you might let out when words just don’t work anymore. Gu
 itarist Skyler Knapp\, vocalist Sam Slocum\, Brazilian-born guitarist Nand
 o Dale\, bass player Nico Brunstein and drummer Laila Wayans met as underg
 rads at NYU\, bonding over a shared sense of humor and forming a motley cr
 ew based more on emotional compatibility than any rigid ideas of shared ar
 tistic sensibility. Finding that last vestiges of the city’s famed 2000s
  and 2010s DIY underground had been ground down to nothing\, the band put 
 on their own shows\, renting spaces and collaborating with friends to buil
 d the world they wanted to inhabit.\n\nDetermined to break new sonic groun
 d\, the band embarked on a relentless practice schedule\, even renting scr
 appy studios on days off during tours with Fontaines DC and Shame. After b
 efriending him at SXSW\, the band tapped producer Dan Carey (black midi\, 
 Wet Leg) to help coalesce the disparate elements of their sound that had b
 een percolating: forceful\, driving physicality\; pop classicism\; gnarled
  beauty\; and a rich emotional core. The resulting 10-song album announces
  Been Stellar as gimlet-eyed chroniclers of contemporary youth\, staring t
 hrough noise and confusion into the dark heart of modern life. These songs
  embody the spirit of a city that makes and breaks its inhabitants on a da
 ily basis - an irony befitting the album’s tone: Been Stellar’s preter
 natural ability to capture the disconnection that haunts New York with pho
 torealist detail might just be the thing that vaults them into its pantheo
 n.
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CATEGORIES:Live Music
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