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Heineken CityArts Fest Presents: Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band with Pollens + The Synthony + Western Haunts
Wednesday Oct 17th, 2012
$10 ADV
Doors 8pm
21+
Heineken City Arts Fest Website
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Website

Advance Tickets on sale at Moe Bar + etix.com

“Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band aren’t an easy sell nor do they inspire a natural embrace. This is complicated music meant to be listened to multiple times and deconstructed piece by piece. The melodies are often buried in the middle of the mix, covered by guitar fuzz, strange vocal harmonies and the insistent beat of Marshall Verdoes. Arrangements are developed and abandoned, only to resurface again for the crescendo. Yet somehow, Where the Messengers Meet becomes a coherent whole — perhaps not as a traditional rock album, but certainly as a transcendence-seeking worldview. It requires a level of confidence and skill that not even their complicated back-story can eclipse.”
-Kyle Anderson, emusic.com