Please note: This article is published as an archive copy from Philadelphia City Paper. My City Paper is not affiliated with Philadelphia City Paper. Philadelphia City Paper was an alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The last edition was published on October 8, 2015.
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December 19-25, 2002
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Palomar
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This is one of those bands that's so peppy, you keep waiting for your gag reflex to kick in. But the three gals and one guy in NYC's Palomar wear chirpy earnestness like a cloak and wield staccato like a dagger, stabbing through jaded defense mechanisms trained to resist just such charms. On the band's wonderful second album, Palomar II (Self-Starter Foundation), they craft 14 cut-to-the-chase guitar-pop ditties about being crushed out, being friends, being jealous, playing hard-to-get and the multitude of accompanying emotions and neuroses. In "Lesion," "there will come a day, when all your signs make sense to me" and in "The Single," "she freaks whenever you're not home, whenever you are gone, whenever you are missing." Cute, yes, but this is a band with the nerve to cover Brian Eno ("I'll Come Running"). Throughout the proceedings, Palomar throws so many angles and angular riffs your way, you'll need a protractor. Your average indie pop band, this ain't.
Sat., Dec. 21, 9:30 p.m., $7, with The Bigger Lovers, The Rosenbergs and Cordalene, The Khyber, 56 S. Second St., 215-238-5888.
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