credit: Aabid Youssef
Night Lunch
This performance is part of the showcase that starts on Wednesday, March 13at Swan Dive Patio
The musical escapades of Night Lunch (Montréal, QC) elegantly evade the standard tropes of modern indie music by dint of a verve that’s just quirky enough to deceive the unsuspecting ear. In the shadowy corners of a city where sin never sleeps, the bunch writes clair-obscur pop songs, in essence, engaging with romantic themes as well as with phantasmagorical imagery. In practice, their perfectly anachronistic melodies are nestled atop spiffy arrangements rooted in early R&B, soul, AM gold and new wave. For things to come, the quartet kneels at the altar of the almighty deities of D.I.Y., crafting with leather-wearing, black varnish-sporting hands a sophomore full-length that is perfectly sumptuous, informed by multi-generational streams of cascading mismatched influences. Fire in the Rose Garden (October 20th, 2023 via Mothland) is a love letter written in timeless ink, a marvelous melodic elegy; bright indie pop with a somber twist.
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