Hi-Dive

D. Biddle is getaway music, the kind you listen to when everything you cherish has burnt down, then before the dust even settles you pack-up whatever’s left and head for oblivion. The tension between oft-haunting melodies and lyrics that edge towards the poetically elegiac, quiver with urgency as well as immobility. D. Biddle traces the fallen structures of disaster, capturing in slow motion the gesture of catastrophe. Guileless emotional pitch tends to crescendo from an almost tender, though dark nostalgia into a series of aching blows and repetitions.

Local musician, Edward Almost, recently performed at Hi-Dive with Themes and the Build-Up. The experimental folk songster is also in the English department of graduate studies at the University of Denver so it's no surprise (or really, unexpectedly fitting) that much of his music has a strong (though innovative) narrative component.