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Wedneday, August 2
Admission: Free
FREE Bass Ale 9-11 PM & copies of The Drama Magazine
while supplies last
Showtimes: 8:30pm - Late
Not too long ago, Damon
McMahon was in a short-lived
New York rock band called Inouk, but before that he was a kid
from New England who started writing songs by himself, for himself.
After moving to Philadelphia at age 17, he wrote constantly often
four to five songs a week, though he almost never performed live.
His music almost never left his room, and he kept his songs stowed
away in a drawer in a plastic bag. At age 21, Damon moved to New
York. Along with his brother Alexander and their friend Ian, he
formed Inouk. They released an album called No Danger and played
shows with the Double, the Occasion, Modest Mouse, White Magic,
the Secret Machines and more. Inouk dissolved after a few years,
but in its final and most tumultuous period, Damon decided to
record alone some of the bedroom songs he never got to play with
the band. He tracked 22 songs in the two days before Christmas
Eve, almost all of them first or second takes. A year later the
band broke up and he was left with the collection of spare recordings
that would become Mansions.
Although he sometimes plays gigs with a live band, most of the
songs on Mansions are simply Damons vocals and guitar. The album
is a rock & roll record, intense and grabbing without a crutch
to lean on; a psychedelic record imaginative and uneasy with nothing
to hide behind. His guitar picking is laid back, but vocally,
every syllable is laboriously annunciated and smattered with an
unmistakable vibrato. Mansions is a record that is quiet and simple
but explosively painedthe sound of inner troubles turned outwards
and transformed in the process.
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