03/14/2025
Indexical presents: Still House Plants (UK), following their acclaimed third album “If I don’t make it, I love u.” Oakland songwriter Kathryn Mohr opens on the heels of her atmospheric full-length debut "Waiting Room." NOT TO BE MISSED!
Still House Plants + Kathryn Mohr
Sat., March 22, 2025
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
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Still House Plants, the British trio, are forging new forms of songwriting through cyclical wordgames, networked studio craft and abstract lyricism. They don’t write songs about feelings, they write songs that move at the pace of feeling. The emotional flights, peaks, lulls, loops, knots and stop-starts in the trio’s music are both content and form, embedded in a questioning guitar figure, a sharp, restless rhythm, a low voice turning a short phrase around and around until it’s just a blissed vibrato. Music that makes too explicit an appeal to intimacy with the listener shouldn’t be trusted; rock music, still lugging around its dubious historical baggage of authenticity and keeping it real, even less so. But I’ve never distrusted Still House Plants.”
- Frances Morgan, The Wire
Over the past few years, Oakland-based experimental electronic folk artist Kathryn Mohr has become something of a master in harnessing feelings of intense discomfort, infusing her grim synthesizer compositions with a lingering, impressionistic gloom. If 2022’s Holly EP was wispy, heavily influenced by the gauzy melancholy of its producer, Mohr’s Flenser labelmate Midwife, then her new album, Waiting Room, allows jarring dissonance to metastasize into a vivid, often graphic meditation on pain. A bone-sharp exercise in looking down the barrel, Waiting Room considers what one can do in the face of abject horror: According to Mohr, stare it down. Succumb to it. As the album’s opening line puts it, “This comfort is bad for your health.
- Sue Park, Pitchfork
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