Pastel Blank

$15, Early Show
Doors 6pm, music 6:30pm
19+

Pastel Blank revolves around the songs and voice of songwriter Angus Watt. It is
brought to life by an ever-shifting cast of musicians and recurring collaborators from
Montréal, Vancouver, and Victoria, and exists somewhere between a “solo” project
and a band.
Experimentation is cloaked in pop-minded song structure: the sheen and gloss of a
disco ball glints off the edges of sharp, angular post-punk sensibilities. The groove is
a morse code stutter; there is funkiness, but it is tempered by a wide-eyed
nervousness, as if the songs themselves aren’t sure what will happen next. The result
is a warped fun house mirror of referentialism: a collage of sounds that are at once
familiar and yet also slightly alien in their combination.
Pastel Blank offers an opportunity for catharsis: today’s anxieties become tonight’s
reason to dance.