The basic structural facts of rock band July Talk are this two front people Leah Fay Goldstein and Peter Dreimanis surrounded by whiplashing guitarists Ian Docherty and Josh Warburton and double drummers Danny Miles and Dani Nash For this compulsively DIY rigorously selfrealizing group the essence of July Talk has always been the tension between precision and chaos To understand this tension we can reduce it to sets of twos or we can magnify it and look deeper as to why we feel the need to frame it one way or the other What we see says more about what were looking for With July Talk as with most things what have we missed We need not ask what July Talks two writhing frontpeoples relationship is to each other but rather what their relationship is to us their audience and to the world this tender villainous confounding world These bodies welcome our gaze they revel and recoil in it while they furiously push back asking of us what they ask of each other please see me for who I am If we see July Talk as a woman and a man in opposition to one another what we are seeing is our own projections upon these bodies What goes on between these bodies all of them that kinetic staticky sticky space is where the truth of July Talk takes shape On stage July Talk unfurls and explodes The action pings from slomotion commotion to backbendy communion fluid as in bodily and liquid as in the dark goo phase of metamorphosis Things get weird occasionally grotesque always enthralling Each show offers moments of grace that reveal for a moment the inner workings of this unknowable universe Hold onto those until the next time
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