Icy Demons - Miami Ice

Miami Ice is the upbeat and wide-ranging third full-length albumfrom Chicago/Philadelphia ensemble Icy Demons. As on previousreleases, the bands altered pop music draws on a wide range of musicalvocabularysometimes within a single song. Though recordedthroughout a very busy year, the album has a very natural feel andexcited energy, like the warming of the senses in spring after a longwinter. Icy Demons cofounders Chris Powell (a.k.a. Pow Pow) andGriffin Rodriguez (a.k.a. Blue Hawaii) use an odd assortment of vintagekeyboards and ethnic percussion, and evoke a past that actuallymight prove to be the future.Icy Demons exciting new touring group will blaze trails acrossthe States this summer and fall. The band has supported Slint, ArcadeFire, and Man Man, as well as headlined their own tours. Theirlive shows are energetic and fast-paced, with the multi-instrumentalistmembers dancing around the stage playing interlocking rhythms. Rodriguezsings of dreams and endurance, alien paranoia and fun food,time travel and the western frontier. Outside of Icy Demons, Powellplays in Man Man and Rodriguez runs his Chicago recording studio,the Shape Shoppe. Both were previously members of the influentialPhiladelphia group Need New Body. Guest musicians on Miami Iceinclude Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Josh Abrams (Prefuse 73, The Seaand Cake), Tomeka Reed (highly esteemed Chicago improvisationalist/cellist), and Man Man guitarist Russell Higbee.

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