HEAVY ROCK: Jucifer (7/26)
By Frank De Blase on Jul. 23rd, 2008
Hey, guess what? I got to hear Jucifer's Amber Valentine sing today - for the first time, really. You see, this duo is so incredibly huge and loud that its diminutive singer-guitarist's voice was completely buried on previous recordings. The volume and violence took precedent. But Jucifer's new Relapse
release is dynamic as hell, with Valentine's voice - a narcotic pixie coo - floating atop the chaos and brief reprieves; reprieves that, even when they get melodic, are as full of sinister malevolence as the peaks are apocalyptically foreboding. Beautifully dark, even a little gothic, like a velvet hammer. This is what it sounds like when doves die.
Jucifer
w/Bludwulf, Orodruin
Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave
Saturday, July 26
9 p.m. | $8 | 454-2966
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