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"1,2,3 — a band from Pittsburgh with a Google-defying name — fought technical problems to play songs that put cantankerous twists into taut rock structures. During its brief set, songs hinted at lurching roots-rock, Talking Heads’ new wave funk, the keyboard filigree of progressive rock and the slow roll of a soul ballad. Lead vocals had a wry, scratchy edge, even as they delivered scrappy, snappy choruses: “I’m scared,” went one, “but not that scared.” JON PARELES
"Sugar and spice, sweet and salty, dark and light. Whatever you want to call it, Pittsburgh band 1,2,3 is a total contradiction - which, in our opinion, makes them all the more interesting" NYLON
"A pop-conscious rock group with infectious hooks and T. Rex-style guitar fuzz" AOL SPINNER
The heartbeat that sparks the third song on 1, 2, 3’s debut LP isn’t just a flutter effect meant to set a melancholic mood. It literally symbolizes the start of a new life. Or in the case of Nicolas Snyder and Joshua Sickels, a crucial state of rebirth—the next logical step after the “classic rock ’n’ roll casualty story” of a band moving on from one project to the next.
While that project took more of a straight-laced approach to pop music, 1, 2, 3’s songs are as stubborn as their name. In other words, good luck reducing New Heaven down to a tidy set of buzz words.
Or as Snyder puts it, “That’s the general idea with this band—that it doesn’t belong to any specific genre, and that there aren’t any preconceived notions about the name or who we are.”
Take the aforementioned “Heat Lightnin’,” for instance. Once you make it past Snyder’s fragile vocals, a disembodied whistler, and several unidentified flying objects, one thing emerges—a liquified bass line that seems to be…talking. And then there are the many striking, speaker-panning elements that reward repeat listens elsewhere: the shimmering synths of “Lonesome Boring Summer,” the swooning strings of “Wave Pool,” the sucker punch percussion of “Work,” the lethargic blues licks of “Just Like Heaven (is gone),” the restless riffs of “20,000 Blades,” and, well, we’d go on but that’d take away half the fun of digging through 1, 2, 3’s sonic detritus.
US TOUR
6/23/11- The Basement- Columbus, OH %
6/24/11- Schubas Tavern- Chicago, IL %
6/26/11- 7th Street Entry- Minneapolis, MN %
6/27/11- Ciceros- St. Louis, MO %
6/28/11- Sticky'z Rock'n'Roll Chicken Shack- Little Rock, AR %
7/11/11- Club Zoo- Pittsburgh, PA #
7/25/11- Wexner Center- Columbus, OH *
7/26/11- Black Cat Backstage- Washington, DC *
7/27/11- Kung Fu Necktie- Philadephia, PA *
7/28/11- Brighton Music Hall- Boston, MA *
7/30/11- Putnam Den- Saratoga Springs, NY *
8/02/11- Bowery Ballroom- New York, NY *
% with Givers & Pepper Rabbit
# with Cut Copy
* with Brother & Kitten
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