As you dig out from under the piles of crumpled wrapping paper and fallen pine needles, Steal This Track thinks you need a soundtrack for your post-holiday melancholy. Rather than a smoky, bluesy piano ballad, today’s featured song is a dubby, moody and quietly funky track from Denver electronic duo , releasing its debut album, “Get Born,” this weekend. You’ll want to steal this one.
Relatively new on the Denver scene, Bedrockk is already generating quite a buzz. Dave Marquess writes, produces, sings and plays guitar, while Phil Swain lays down the beats on real drums. Like an octopus, the duo has one foot in dubstep, one in experimentalism, one in hip-hop, one in R&B, one in witch house, one in blues, one in rock and one in house music. Remarkably, the mess of influences coalesces into a dense, blissed-out groove that manages to brood with a sense of humor.
On January 1, Bedrockk’s first full-length will christen the new Denver electronic label, — also home to Endeavorz, Checkers and . In advance of the release, the pair performs tonight at Cervantes, with (the collaboration between ‘s Michael Menert and Paul Basic), Mikey Thunder and Fisk *Tree Thugger* (a.k.a. Greg Fisk of ). The show is free before 10 for those over 21. After 10, it’s just $10. Tickets and more details are available .
To get pumped up for tonight’s show, steal “Streets are Shinin’,” the lead single from “Get Born.” You’re welcome.
Please note that downloads offered via Steal This Track are intended to whet your appetite, and are NOT CD-quality recordings. If you want those, please support the artists by buying their music and/or seeing them live.
If you’re a band or musician ready to expose your fresh sounds to the readers of Reverb, email your tracks — along with any interesting facts about them, as well as a photo or album art — to Eryc Eyl for consideration.
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