The meat of tonights sandwich are two of Seattles leading chillwave lights: the tropically-accented synth and percussion duo USF and the gauzy one-man band Big Spiders Back, lately relocated to Brooklyn. Both have recent albums out, USFs The Spray and Big Spiders Backs Memory Man, which finds him stretching his shoegazing electronics and muffled beats into more subtly house-like territories. Just as worthwhile, though, is the shows bread. Local duo Blue Sky Black Deathnot to be confused with 206 noise wreckers Blue Sabbath Black Cheermake soft and stately hip hop instrumentals that wouldnt sound out of place with Drake emoting over them. On the other end of the spectrum, experimental outfit BrainFruit follow a myriad of weird muses to unpredictable ends: a year or two ago, they were a ball of Lightning Bolt-like racket; now, theyre a Cluster-ed ripple of hypnotic electric tones and gentle motorik pulses. Catch this fruitful phase before they mutate again. ERIC GRANDY
Fri., Oct. 21, 7 p.m., 2011
