Music: 9:00 PM // Doors: 8:00 PM -- Tickets: $10 Pre-Sale // $15 Doors
Rosy Overdrive: All That Fall starts on an incredibly high note with “Long Dirt Driveway”, a six-minute dispatch of slowcore and post-rock from the American Midwest. The languid opening instrumental becomes a swirling dust storm over the song’s first two minutes, but once it’s died down we’re left to continue along the winding path with Salerno and Dick Texas to the tune of slightly psychedelic folk rock. All That Fall kind of sounds like reversed-engineered country music, like if you tried to gather up all the second/third-hand country influences on psych/Paisley Underground/alt-rock groups like Mazzy Star, The Breeders, and Spacemen 3 and tried to recreate the original thing out of them. Sometimes, Salerno’s post-punk background peeks through a little more, like in “Slow Down Friend”–it’s her most standout vocal performance, and there’s just a little bit of desert-goth in the music, too. “I Wanna Be Like Jesus” and “Last January” might be the clearest proof that Dick Texas can do straight-up country and folk (respectively), but neither track is without its quirks, and the grainy “Mars” (featuring Indira Edwards’ viola) once again takes the roots to the cosmos. Even so, none of this quite compares us to the out-of-nowhere closing track “Flies”, an electronic-fried krautrock/psych rock creation that ends All That Fall on just as high of a note as it begins. The fog that surrounds All That Fall doesn’t clear on “Flies”, exactly, but the shapes we can just barely make out are clearly moving faster.