THE FRIENDLY SKIES, PACIFIC UV, JOUST
(Towne Lounge, 714 SW 20th Pl) As far as interesting back-stories go, I couldn’t know less about Pacific UV. What I do know is that they slipped into Portland, assumingly in the dead of night and cloaked by darkness, from their former locale (Athens, Georgia) awhile back. But when you listen to the hazy post-shoegaze atmospheric jams of Longplay 2, recently released via WARM Records, you don’t hear anything remotely resembling our city or their Southern roots. The band might as well have traveled from the UK via cosmic spaceship. Longplay 2 isn’t the warmest of recordings—record label pun aside—but the band patiently develops a textural and swirling body of matter that is at the center of their delicate and mysterious songs. While their past remains a mystery, their unique sound—shoegaze was never this calculating, post-rock was never this fragile—proves that sometimes the less you know about a band, the better. EAC

Also, I should mention that the band has an excellent blog, which is a great read and showcases their love for music, not just as performers, but as fans as well.

MP3:
Pacific UV - Need