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Furthermore, as a multimedia series, the group will be accompanied with live, kaleidoscopic visuals from local video stalwart, Chris Svoboda.  Buffalo electronic experimenters UVB76 and Crux will be opening for support. The audio-visual spectacle is happening at Dreamland and it begins at 8pm.  Five bucks will secure your entrance.

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Crystalline deep end? Check. Premier lineup? Check. Dance yourself clean this evening. The music begins at 11pm, $5 to get in.

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The young 22 year old producer has been on tour for most of the past two years, stopping in the major meccas of the world. Whether he’s playing in Miami Beach, Las Vegas, or New Delhi, he always brings his contagious energy, sweeping the crowd off their feet with his vibrant showmanship. So no, don’t miss this, and yes, chug down a redbull beforehand. Tickets are $25, Jessie Aaron will be playing for support, and the evening will take off at 10pm.

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What you hear tonight will be no exception. In fact, she’ll be delivering tracks from her latest album, Desidirium, which was only released two weeks ago and aside from her newfound leanings towards elements of trap music, let’s just her bass game has never been so on point. Silky moog phatty notes and low-end dance stabs color her tracks with depth and a new dimension of danceability. Furthermore, various r&b vocalists are featured, transforming some of her hip-hop instrumentals into full fledged songs.  Calling all electronic and hip-head heads, head to the Waiting Room tonight for an experience you will not want to miss. Doors open at 8pm and entrance is $15. Catch you there.

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The 8 track album, teeming with choppy and subdued production and foreign yet string-like synthesizer arrangements, ambiguously fuses human expression with the paradigm of technology. It’s Yorke in his most experimental leanings, the score to the anatomy of a loading motherboard. As a digital manifestation, these shadowy, slightly paranormal instrumentals prove to be the ideal backdrop to accompany Yorke’s style of  stream-of-consciousness singing. It’s more stripped down than The Eraser, and embodies a new level of the solipsism that is characteristic of Yorke’s music. If anything, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes is unsurprisingly the direction that Yorke’s musical trajectory has been heading towards for the past 15 years.

Highlights include “Nose Grows Some,” which pairs the sleek, minimal rhythm of static high-hat blips and heart-beat kicks with some of Yorke’s most painstakingly stunning lyrical motifs as well as “Interference,” which is actually beat-less and comes across as a quiet, yet powerful anthem. “Truth Ray,” in its use of reverse synths and vocal coos compressed to a syncopated kick proves, to be quite a compelling listen as well. Altogether, singling out individual tracks might prove to be futile since the album is meant to be coherent as a whole. It’s definitely a release whose minimalism will be controversial among Yorke fans, but here are some tips for enjoying it: listen to it more than once, definitely listen to it alone.

Grade: B

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Furthermore, his live career has brought him to play alongside synth pop heavy weights like Matthew Dear, Washed Out, and M83. Consider him an up and coming counterpart, tonight at Buffalo Iron Works (8pm,$5), don’t forgo this opportunity to catch this burgeoning synth artist.

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If you haven’t heard, tonight affords an opportunity to fulfill all of the above. Iconic indie-rock group, Pinback will be hitting the stage at Buffalo Iron Works where they’ll be gracing all those in attendance with a live rendition of their 2004 home-recorded album, Summer in Abaddon, in it’s entirety. The album is a collage of breezy and catchy melodies saturated with a shadowy ambiance; a full display of the exquisitely raw resonance that launched the duo into the ranks of lo-fi sensations. Even if you are only a casual listener, its obvious that no one executes the combination of precise guitar, crisp drums, warm bass, and string section vocals quite like this San Francisco duo.

And it’s not easy to describe exactly why their music sets itself apart from the ocean of good lo-fi music out there. Maybe it’s their ability to evoke wistfulness, simplicity, and remembrance without conjuring the muddled haze that so commonly accompanies nostalgia. Maybe it’s their ear for subtleties, their ability to experiment within their own terms; song structures that are placid on the surface, but vivid when you unearth them.

Any attempt to dissect the source of their song sorcery is probably futile, either way it’s the sort of music that greets you like a warm embrace and draws in your company for long stretches of time. It’s the exact music that leaves you realizing that a soundtrack for the bitter-sweet introspection you entertain, time to time, actually exists. And that it’s by Pinback. With the region having recently thrown its annual autumn bomb on us (with little notice), it wouldn’t hurt to seek out Ironworks as a refuge this evening, no it wouldn’t hurt at all.

Doors open tonight at 7pm. Cover is $16. Tera Melos is set to open.

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The single opens with a gritty and sultry bass line before the primary hook takes over. Here, synth stabs are accompanied with deft high-hat work, mallet samples, and anonymous female vocal coos. “Rainforest part-ayyy” is what she appears to be announcing and the fun is only beginning. The track craftily conjures an atmosphere of the jungle-book meets the disco, veering in and out of various adaptations of it’s infectious hook and don’t you worry, PIC makes sure to scatter surprises throughout. A sudden shift at 1:48 puts the bass-synth combo on full display via sparse kicks and shuffled high hats. Towards the end, a lush key melody emerges right after a final dance-stab rendezvous, allowing the track to fade out with a note of blissful tranquility.

Listen to “Smash” below.

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