Chicago Reader Raves About Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

According to Chicago Reader, “If you aren’t still in thrall to Sleepytime Gorilla Museum from their first go-round, then I can only assume you don’t know who they are—and now that they’ve reunited after 13 years, you have the enviable opportunity to see them for the first time. SGM play ‘rock,’ in a certain sense, but their gloriously strange music overflows that meager container. They like to call it ‘rock against rock,’ and its innumerable forms include saw-toothed tangles of electric violin and guitar, eerie avant-garde chamber miniatures, devil-and-angel doubled vocals, thundercloud drums rattling with scrap-metal hailstorms, and soaring melodies of garment-rending beauty rendered fractal by mosaics of time signatures. In their persons, the impression they create is both playful and sinister: part fae folk, part Mad Max homesteaders, part far-future priests of an occult posthuman religion.” The site has a feature – here – on the group that doubles as a preview of their upcoming Chicago show and a review of their new LP Of The Last Human Being, which is at radio now via AVANT NIGHT.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum continues to tour the US:

3/4 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall
3/5 – Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
3/7 – Denver, CO – The Bluebird
3/8 – Estes Park, CO – The Stanley Hotel
3/9 – Estes Park, CO – The Stanley Hotel
3/11 – Kansas City, MO – Record Bar
3/12 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fine Line
3/13 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
3/14 – Indianapolis, IN – Irving Theater
3/15 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
3/16 – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
3/17 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
3/18 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere
3/19 – Baltimore, MD – The Ottobar
3/20 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
3/21-24 – Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival
3/25 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
3/26 – Winter Park, FL – Conduit
3/27 – Tampa, FL – Orpheum
3/28 – New Orleans, LA – Howlin’ Wolf
3/29 – Houston, TX – Secret Group
3/30 – Austin, TX – The Mohawk
3/31 – Dallas, TX – Trees
4/2 – Albuquerque, NM – Sister Bar
4/3 – Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
4/4 – Tucson, AZ – 191 Toole
4/5 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre
4/6 – Berkeley, CA – The UC Theatre