Pile w/ Cope Acidic, PROBLEMS

Tue Jan 28 2025 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm UTC-06:00

Slowdown | Omaha

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Pile w\/ Cope Acidic, PROBLEMS
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Doors at 7:00pm
Front Room
$17 Advance/$20 Day of Show
All ages show. Check entry requirements at http://theslowdown.com/All-Ages
About Pile
“I want to do what makes me feel like a kid: experimenting, having fun, and trying to discover new things about this work,” says Pile’s Rick Maguire about All Fiction. It’s his band’s eighth record, and one that finds the ambitious group assembling its most texturally complex material yet—despite the fraught inspiration underscoring its restive lyrics. Alongside the blistering drums and scorched-earth riffs that first galvanized Pile’s dedicated fanbase, the band has incorporated elegiac strings, mystifying vocal corrosions, and haunting synths. From the creeping fear of cinematic opener “It Comes Closer” to the euphorically ascending keys on ego-shattering closer “Neon Gray,” All Fiction is an ornate, carefully paced study on the subjectivity of perception, the data-shaping despotism of big tech, and the connections between anxiety and death. In its most vital moments, it’s also a resolute recommitment to the restorative significance of art and imagination.
For fifteen years, Pile’s evolving take on rock has earned the group one oft-repeated superlative: “your favorite band’s favorite band.” Ceaseless touring took its members from Boston’s basement circuit to international festivals, hitting loftier technical apexes with each new record. Maguire—the fastidious composer, evocative guitarist, and potent voice behind the solo-turned-punk project—gives musical body to his interior world in scream-along-able lyrics that skew surreal. Drummer Kris Kuss’s time- defying performances, layered over gnarled basslines, have garnered widespread acclaim. 2019’s Green and Gray took Pile’s thunderous noise to more intricate realms, thanks to new recruit Alex Molini’s work on bass and keyboards, and Chappy Hull’s dextrous interplay on second guitar. That record drew praise for its political directness and instrumental ferocity, but Pile’s seventh album was almost a wholly different endeavor—one on which Maguire would favor piano.
About Cope Acidic
Noisy (and sometimes spacey) post-hardcore from Omaha.
About PROBLEMS
PROBLEMS MAKES SUBVERSIVE HOUSE MUSIC. MOST OF MY LYRICS ARE ABOUT PEKINGESE DOGS, SPECIFICALLY WILBUR. I ALSO HAVE A SONG THAT WILL GIVE YOU INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE YOUR COMPUTER SING SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO.
More info and music at the slowdown.com.
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