Doors open for the show at Sugar City at 6pm.  While there is no cost listed in the facebook event, I’d bring around $5-$10 to support the touring musicians.  Keep in mind that Sugar City is an alcohol and drug free venue, and is also all ages.

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Headed by frontwoman and guitarist, Isabel Reidy,, her brother and lead guitarist,Silas Reidy, bassist, Jon Samuels, and drummer, Angela Devivo. Lead singer, Isabel started making music originally under the name, Fight A Scary Dog, a bluegrassy, indie-folk project. The four members of the band came together first as close friends and played in the Ithaca Underground, an arts and music community in the Ithaca area. Here the band met with co-founder of Don Giovanni Records, Joe Steinhardt.

Izzy True plays with a nuanced collection of sounds that mix and mash elements found in 80s post punk, with strong, thick bass rhythms that are blended together with guitar moments that seem almost breathless. Sounding similar to what you may get out of a Smiths record, like on the opening to the track “Deep Dark,” a smooth sounding and emotive song. Melodic vocal harmonies and song writing throughout the record will also make you think of the Pixies on occasion. Izzy True do not become shackled to these stylistic genre choices. Everything is grounded and their sound doesn’t end up getting away from them as a result of trying to do too much. This is helped along by the delicate crooning of vocalist, Isabel Reidy, who can produce raw and powerful tones and at other times evoke a stark fragility that makes her voice sound as if it’s going to fall apart at any moment. She also has a pleasant folk inspired tone, not to be confused with a countrified twang.

Nope opens with “Mr. Romance,” a fun track and the single from the record. It showcases the band’s strength with using catchy vocal melodies with everything backed by a tight rhythm section. “Which Wish” begins with an interplay between a nice little bass line and a faint guitar that almost kind of dances around it. This leads into one of the stronger songs on the record. The group likes to mix up their sound in the middle of a song and halfway through “Which Wish,” the guitar switches into a guttural, fuzzed out tone and back again.

This is another of the band’s strengths. Each song is imprinted with the same DNA, but you’re never left asking, “Did I hear this already?” and running for a total of 37 minutes things never feel bogged down. As a complete piece it’s a fun record, and that’s fine. Fun doesn’t have to be intrinsically tied to lacking substance and or being bland. Nope is fun and does those things and does them well.

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The album is a total daydream and there is a matured variance in comparison to the Troll EP released last year. Highlights for me include “Mr. Romance” and “Cruel Kings II”.

Catch Izzy True tonight at Dreamland along with Chevron Bloom, Teenage Satan and Yellow House. Entry is $6. Show starts at 7:30.

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Reidy combines sweetly masochistic imagery–such as greasy elbows during cake baking or rotten fruit–on the EP, while evoking dissonant tones and melodic hooks that bigger-time artists like Alex G or Waxahatchee would dig. With her brother Silas Reidy on bass and Chris Ploss on drums, the tunes are smooth in their transitions and timing, but conundrums on a deeper level. Don’t think too hard.

Catch Izzy True at Curly’s tonight with dreamy-electronic act Peter Kirsch and Buffalo’s very own post-punk The Patterns. Entry is $6, doors at 6 PM.

Watch Izzy True’s music video for “Swole,” cartoons drawn by Reidy herself.

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