Tonight: Reptar at the Tractor Tavern


Body Faucet is the upcoming release from Athens, Georgia band Reptar. Body Faucet is also probably the most disgusting album title I've heard in some time. Completely fitting, however, since a Reptar show is bound to make you drip sweat from every pore (and possibly other bodily fluids from other orifices). These boys make music that is made for awkward dancing with other awkward people. Jaunty rhythms awash in playful, fuzzy synth and punctuated with jagged electric guitar chords. Vocalist Graham Ulicny sings like a nerd possessed, using his entire body to sing the hook-heavy melodies. Slightly goofier than their contemporaries (Foster the People, Vampire Weekend), the band is nerdier than a bushel of pocket protectors. But nerdy is sexy, so perhaps their self-invented genre of "electrosexpop" is more accurate than not. If David Byrne of the Talking Heads went on a date with Fela Kuti, Reptar would be the band playing in the car at Makeout Point. That's weird but true.

Reptar will be playing tonight at the Tractor Tavern. The show starts at 9:30 pm and tickets are $10 at the door. Quiet Hooves will be opening the show (Google them!).



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