ROCK: Night Gallery (5/30)

By Frank De Blase on May 27, 2009

Night Gallery's music is like a lullaby for the damned. You know all the great composers were nuts - they all had syphilis, after all. But that's not to impugn Night Gallery's collective health. This band's unique, delicate renderings with instruments like melodica, marimba, and glockenspiel are mixed with a standard rock-band arsenal. The result is both beautiful and eerie. The Rochester-based ensemble's debut, "Ghosts And Memory," could very easily occupy the same spot on the shelf as The Lobster Quadrille with all its Southern gothic procession and the mellow smolder and burn of Hotel Reverie. If Anton Levay played with the Beach Boys, this is what it would sound like. The Isotopes and Strange Montgomery open.

Night Gallery plays Saturday, May 30, 9 p.m. at Lovin' Cup, Park Point. $3. 292-9940.