[ATTENDED: October 26, 2016] Shannon Wright
My friend Andrew got us tickets to see Shellac. When I looked to see who was opening, the site listed “Shannon Wright.” I had never heard of her. I had t laugh that the blurb on Shellac was literally two sentences. While Wright’s was 8 large paragraphs.
It made me excited to see her, but I had no idea what to expect. And then she came out with just her guitar (and flashbacks to Kishi Bashi’s opener Twain came hurtling at me).
But Wright was no Twain. She started with a looped guitar melody–rather pretty. And then she turned it off–that appears to be her “tuning music” because once she started playing–it sounded nothing like that loop.
Wrights play a very aggressive guitar–she doesn’t strum of pick so much as pluck those string so that they slap back against the guitar. Her low notes are percussive and her high notes are painful. She uses no pick, so it really emphasizes this abrasive style. Her songs have a very steady rhythm on the low notes–very easy to bob your head (or in some cases seriously headbang) along to, while the melody gets hammered out on the high strings. (more…)
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