Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 Show Starts: 8:00 pm

$12 in the Showroom

With: My Goodness

Augustines

With its open-armed energy and elegiac grace, “AUGUSTINES” marks a colossal leap forward for Votiv/Oxcart recording group Augustines – no mean feat considering the extraordinary power of their breakthrough 2011 debut, “RISE YE SUNKEN SHIPS.” Songs like “Now You Are Free” and the plaintive “Walkabout” are both immediate and engaging, joining joyously unrestrained arrangements with singer/guitarist Billy McCarthy’s signature affective lyricism. “AUGUSTINES” marks a milestone on Augustines’ amazing journey, the work of a gifted band ascending to new heights while simultaneously grappling with their place in the universe. “You have to do some soul-searching when given the opportunity to manifest your dream,” McCarthy says. “You’re free to walk the walk you always said you could walk.”

“The first record was obviously very personal,” he says. “It was really for us in many ways. There was almost an exchange – we turned from the interior and started considering some of the breathtaking moments that happened to us on the road, in different countries.” Indeed, tracks like the thundering “Cruel City” and the album-closing “Hold Onto Anything” demonstrate a distinctly outward shift in sonic scope, interpolating the holistic experience of West African music into Augustines’ sweeping, multi-faceted sound. “It’s not musicians up on a pedestal,” Sanderson – who studied music in Ghana– says. “The audience is singing, the audience is dancing, they’re all making music together..” That’s what we’ve been trying to do our whole lives as musicians, but only recently have we been able to embrace that.” “It’s all about being inclusive,” McCarthy says. “Interaction is the lifeblood of what we think music is.”

Now based in Seattle, Augustines are eager to bring their brilliant new album to a worldwide audience keen for their return. If “RISE YE SUNKEN SHIPS” provided much needed catharsis, “AUGUSTINES” now takes this very special band to an altogether new plane, transcendent and triumphant.

http://www.weareaugustines.com/

My Goodness

My Goodness is a Seattle-based duo that consists of Joel Schneider (guitar, vocals) and Andy Lum (drums).

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