Auckland band Dictaphone Blues brings its psychedelic pop sound to Wanganui on Saturday, as part of a national tour promoting its second album.
The trio is playing at Space Monster, with doors opening at 9pm and the band planning to get started in and around the 10.30 mark. The albumit released on April 9 is called Beneath the Crystal Palace.
It follows the group's first album, On The Down And In, which came out three years ago and contained four top 10 alternative airplay singles, including Spooky Room and Cliché.
The band's publicity material calls its music "jangling pop melodies" with "snarling guitars, spacey, lazy tambourines and psychedelic clatter". The songs on the new album, it says, tell many tales of "friendship, heartache, technological armageddon and inner peace".
The trio is said to be well known in Auckland's indie pop scene, and has also played at the Rhythm 'N Vines festival and supported tours by Broken Social Scene, Okkervil River and also the New Pornographers. Beneath the Crystal Palace was recorded at The Mt Eden Gentleman's Club last winter.
