Imagine “That Girl” at her hottest, along with three tie-wearing Donald Hollingers conjuring a peppy, experimental wall-of-sound, and you pretty much get the intoxicating dance party that ushered in March like a lion at the on Tuesday.
A sweaty, cuddly lion. , supported by Denver’s and , is a 12-year-old, primarily instrumental foursome from Austin with indie-rock sensibilities that combine heavy percussion, driving guitars, synthesizers and analog equipment. At the forefront is the seductive Yvonne Lambert, channeling a 1969 Marlo Thomas at her most elegantly coiffed, manipulating the theremin with the lost intensity of a symphony conductor. On Monday, I couldn’t imagine what the genre-du-jour term “indietronica” might even mean. Now it seems synonymous with “Octopus Project.”
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