Baltimore’s Terrors and DJ Julie Benner will be playing at Gabe’s on Wednesday, December 4. Local electro noise-niks Alex Body, Miller-Heuermann, and Sky Fauna will support the bill.
Terrors, also known as Elijah Forrest, has released several limited-edition cassette tapes on labels such as Bathetic Records and Cavelife. In 2011, Weird Forest Records culled selections from some of the tapes and released them on vinyl and CD. The album, Lagan Qord, received positive reviews with frequent comparisons Weird Forest label-mate Grouper.
Terrors’ music is haunting and strange — somber bedroom folk with a proclivity for sound collage and noise experiments. Many songs on Lagan Qord are clearly indebted to the sound of Neil Young bootlegs in the same way as fellow folk-weirdos Woods. There’s a woozy and sleepy vibe that permeates everything from the mumbly, murky vocals to the simple but reverb-drenched guitar lines.
The strange weariness of Terrors’ songs is a by-product of Forrest’s bi-coastal wanderings over the years. A piece by Erika M. Anderson (better known under the moniker EMA) in Vice details how in 2009, Forrest left on an ill-fated tour from his former home of Los Angeles and ended up in Baltimore. EMA’s article mentions a near-arrest for public intoxication in Iowa City — hopefully this visit will be better for Terrors.
The show begins downstairs at 9 p.m. sharp. The cover is free, but donations are strongly encouraged for the touring bands, so pay up ya punks.
