MODERN MAN This act from Greenville, S.C. paints in shades of shoegaze, post-punk and post-rock, tilting more guitar squall than ebb-and-crest, though both elements comfortably co-exist on their palette. Sure, these days those tags apply to scores of young bands basking in its discovery of My Bloody Valentine-guitar distortion. But what sets Modern Man apart is the sinister undertow of Joy Division pulse-and-thrum – and Allen Glenn’s ghostly, echo-chamber vocals – that dial up the tension to a pleasurable frisson. By all means, find out if their full-length debut, Eyes No, is your cuppa by heading over to their pay-what-you-can Bandcamp page. With Troubador Dali, a name neither catchy nor clever. $5. Snug Harbor.
This article appears in Jun 13-19, 2012.
