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All Is Strange in Love and Pop: El Perro del Mar @ 9:30 Club
It’s one thing to write a break-up record. But recording it while your ex looks on?
“The songs were an actual communication, because he was very present,” says Sarah Assbring, referring to the recording sessions for Love Is not Pop, her latest album as El Perro del Mar. She built a studio in Gothenburg, Sweden, several years ago with her then boyfriend, and although they broke up over a year ago, he’s still the sound engineer. “He was more or less looking me in the eye while I was doing the vocals.”
Awash in echo and atmosphere, Love Is not Pop is a remarkably spacey album for an artist who cut her teeth making sweet, sad, girl-group-sounding indie pop. Lyrically, though, the record is grounded. When Assbring sings lines like “We’ve been together for so long/I gotta get smart” and “It is something to have wept as we have wept,” she says, she means every crestfallen syllable.
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Weekend Music Round-Up
Friday
- US Royalty, Cut Off Your Hands, CANNOT BE STOPPED. Black Cat. $12. All ages.
- Death By Sexy, The Whore Moans. The Red & The Black. $8. +21.
- Mello D & the Rados, Soul Cannon. Velvet Lounge. $10. +21.
- Super Diamond (Neil Diamond cover band), The Reflex. 9:30 club. $22. All ages.
- Freeland, Alex Metric. Rock and Roll Hotel. $17. All ages.
- Brian Settles Quartet (Fri. & Sat. shows). Bohemian Caverns. $20.
- Marah. Jammin’ Java. $15. All ages.
- DJ Eskimo. Cafe Saint Ex. +21.
- Marc Cary & the Focus Trio. Kennedy Center. $15.
- Ewha Korean Music Orchestra. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Free.
