Boston-based psychadelia trio Quilt celebrated their self-titled record release Wednesday night, at the aesthetically appropriate Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn. Upward spirals of utopian-esque vocals clothed with jangly guitar riffs filled the somber brick building for an hour that has been lost in the space-time continuum. Released on Mexican Summer Records, Quilt, is the awakened love-child of Shane Butler, Anna Rochinski, John Andrews and, now former member, Taylor Mcvay, who was their drummer pre-release and wrote most of the new material.
After the rolling kaleidoscope of Cowboys In The Void and the droned-out, vocal-heavy Young Gold, Andrews pounded the audience into Commodity Spectre, off of their 7’’ release, Agents of Play.
Quilt’s visual hallucination-inducing sound is no surprise given their background as visual art students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Their namesake gives way to the textured two and three part harmonies, stimulated by lucid tambourine and synth waves that illuminate the band’s strong euphoric vibrations. Their album is available as of Nov. 7th on vinyl and, appropriately, cassette tape.
–Maria Jean Sullivan