Sunday 01.13.07: Sunday Night Residency – UPSILON ACRUX

Upsilon Acrux || Listen

There’s no shortage of bands around that make brainy, zany instrumental rock, and certainly Galapagos Momentum can go toe to toe with Sleeping People, Zs and Ahleuchatistas in terms of the complexity of the material. But despite all the unpredictable switches between harmony and dissonance, space and clutter, groove and anti-groove, Upsilon Acrux wants to connect. New guitarist Brady Miller applies the kooky melodicism of his other band, Bad Dudes, to songs like “Expiration (Alaska, My Darkness),” resulting in some beautiful, finely textured passages the likes of which we’ve never heard from Upsilon Acrux before. Or any other instrumental rock band for that matter, save perhaps Don Caballero on its watershed 1998 album, What Burns Never Returns. – Prefix Mag

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