Daily-ist: Wednesday

:: Windy & Carl + Golden Cities @ Diverseworks ::

We love catching performances in unique and different locations, which is why we never miss a chance to see a great Houston band perform at Diverseworks' Performance space.

Tonight, psych/shoegaze/dreampop/minimalist/experimental/space-rock duo Windy & Carl, and Houston's own post-rock quartet Golden Cities perform at 8pm for 8 bucks. Can't beat that with a psychedelic stick.

Garnering comparisons to Brian Eno and M83, Dearborn, Michigan's Windy & Carl are more closely comparable to Houston natives and Kranky labelmates, Charalambides: a married couple that makes spacious, desolate, largely instrumental music based on guitar processed heavily with reverb and delay. Of the two groups, Windy & Carl's music is purer and even more subdued, and can be almost stoic in its unbending attention to an extended drone. The 2008 release Songs for the Broken Hearted, their fourth for Kranky, has some vocals, but is mostly comprised of an imposing expanse of drone and murmur, unforgiving, but nonetheless pretty as heck. The couple was most active in the late 1990s; since 2001, they have reportedly put most of their efforts into running Stormy Records in their hometown of Dearborn, Michigan, and this is their first tour in quite some time.

Golden Cities, who has received solid reviews from local music bloggers and critics, began when the opportunity arrived for longtime friends Marcus Gausepohl, Nathan Heskia and Lance Higdon to play music together. After releasing an EP as part of John Sears' Grey Ghost series in 2007, they released their self-titled debut album (recorded with Tambersauro's Jeff Price)in October 2008 on Esotype records.

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Wednesday, June 3rd
Windy & Carl + Golden Cities
Doors @ 7pm | Show @ 8pm
Diverseworks | Directions
$8.00 at the door, no advance tix