ERICK SLICK w/ Jenny Besetzt, Babe Club

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While with previous solo records Palisades and Bullfighter Slick mined his subconscious for the moodier and more abstract side of the coin, Wiseacre is a technicolored exaltation. It reads like a novel, sequencing in chronological order the ups and downs of self-acceptance before fully committing to someone else.
Jenny Besetzt does not shy away from a cathartic release. Just listen to the title tracks from their two full-length records—Only and Tender Madness—and it’s clear that the lean economy of their post-punk underpinnings is bursting with a poignant vulnerability. Maybe it’s the history of Romanticism encoded in vocalist John Wollaber’s DNA—he was born in Germany to an opera singer—that explains the band’s affinity to soften the sharper edges of their sound with cavernous vocals and dreamy synth arrangements.
“Charleston-based Babe Club makes cool-toned synth pop. The band is the brainchild of Jenna Desmond and Corey Campbell: the two met in College, and quickly became collaborators. After graduating, Desmond and Campbell joined the Americana act Susto. After a few years playing huge stages and major festivals all over the country, they departed that band and began to carve out their own sound. Ultimately landing on something dreamy and melancholic. Babe Club’s latest single “That Feeling,” has its origins in the pandemic. Desmond was unemployed for six months, and suddenly had all the free time in the world to sit around and feel anxious about her future. She felt discouraged about releasing new music. “‘That Feeling’ is about adulthood induced depression,” she says, “When you land in it, realize you're all alone, and you're not naive anymore.”

Show Details

Dates: Opening Night: March 18, 2022 Final Performance: March 19, 2022