I do not think that word means what they think it means

Though what it actually does mean is accurate:

Notable free folk musician CHRISTINA CARTER returns. CARTER is a member of revered experimental ensembles CHARALAMBIDES and SCORCES, and has a handful of captivating solo releases to her credit. Her solo endeavors feature unique vocal affectations and abstracted, airy ruminations on guitar, material that is oftentimes harrowing, at others sparse, but always thoroughly engrossing. For this performance, CARTER will be joined by sometime collaborator GOWN, and the two have a split forthcoming with MY CAT IS AN ALIEN on the Opax imprint. 90 DAY MEN bassist ROB LOWE will open with his LICHENS project, a stirring and heavily psych endeavor consisting of droning, looping vocals and affected, treated guitar. LOWE has issued a few handmade EPs over the last several months, and is apparently prepping a full length for the Kranky label. Guitarist MATT CLARK will open with his latest musical endeavor, FROM LIGHTNING TO THE WOMB, “a voluminous bent-electric-guitar and voice based bridge between EARTH, ENO, and BO DIDDLEY.”

(blurb for tonight's show at the Empty Bottle.)

Carter's vocals certainly are affected, but that's usually understood in a derogatory way (I mean it that way here), so I doubt that's what whoever wrote the blurb really meant.  As for the use of "affected" to describe Lichens, I guess it's not terribly inaccurate—the one time I saw him I thought the guitar playing was kind of like a less interesting version of Ben Chasny's, and insofar as that might seem like chasing after a trend it might could be considered affected, but I'm not really interested it making that judgment.  The best part of Lichens are the vocals, anyway; Lowe has a pretty deep voice and the resulting loops are like a cross between Frippertronics and Demetrio Stratos's solo albums; the album he's working on will probably be pretty interesting (I bought one of the EPs but! nothing was written on it!).

Comments

[Matt Weiner]

Charalambides stayed at my apartment once. They call pop 'coke'. That's not an affectation though, I think they're from Texas. Their name comes (came?) from Nick Charles' real name in The Thin Man.

If I call you out on "interested it" things will descend into chaos, so I won't.

[ben wolfson]

I call "pop" a style of music, and soda sometimes "coke".

As for "interested it", uh, fuck.

[jp katt]

But you gotta hand it to the Empty Bottle for having, overall, the best band descriptions by far of any rock venue in the city. This one could use some extra attention to hyphenation (she's a folk musician! and she's free!), but one can hardly complain.

Ben, I've never ever heard you call soda "coke" unless it is actually Coke, and it would kinda freak me out if you did.

[ben wolfson]

I'm pretty sure I used to do it. I had neighbors across the street who were from Texas. Maybe I grew out of it.

("jp katt"? Whatever.)

[Matt Weiner]

Aren't you supposed to call pop "pop" in Chicago? But I hear you're from California, so that may be it.

Milwaukee is said to be a "soda" island in a sea of "pop." My investigations have proved inconclusive, though some of the Milwaukans I know do say "soda."