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Upsilon Acrux

Courtesy of Javier Diaz | Posted on November 11, 2011

When

Sun, November 20, 2011
8pm

At Door

$10

Musicians

About

Upsilon Acrux is an instrumental quartet (dual guitars and dual drums). Their music is not easy to describe but attempts to do so regard it as esoteric, mathematical, athletic, and noisy. It is generally very intense, loud, hard-hitting and unbelievably virtuosic.

Prefix Magazine notes that the music is "...weird and playful and glowing, a much-needed antidote to the normally sober world of instrumental progressive rock.” The combination of blazingly fast, interwoven musical lines delivered at blinding speed mixed with their unique melodic sense makes Upsilon's music instantly recognizable. They are "Technically brilliant, rhythmically unbelievable, with just the right amount of melody," (Disagreement.net). Upsilon Acrux is one of the most creative and original of the shockingly large number of great post-punk, avant-garde rock bands today. ...

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