Breathe Owl Breathe Brings Style to Denver, Boulder

Breathe Owl Breathe Brings Style to Denver, Boulder

October 24, 2013 Off By Billy Thieme
Breathe Owl Breathe are on their way to Denver & Boulder this weekend. Don't miss your chance to catch these iconoclasts. (Photo: http://pitchperfectpr.com)

Breathe Owl Breathe are on their way to Denver & Boulder this weekend. Don’t miss your chance to catch these iconoclasts. (Photo: http://pitchperfectpr.com)

 

Breathe Owl Breathe – a new-to-some-of-us trio from East Jordan, Michigan – has trouble, it seems, comfortably fitting in. They have that trouble in the most beautiful, dreamy ways imaginable. Vocalist Micah Middaugh’s smooth baritone – at times evoking The National‘s Matt Berninger, sometimes Roxy Music‘s Bryan Ferry, but mostly channeling Nick Drake  – perfectly meanders over the soft, almost magical musical constructions Trevor Hobbs, and Andréa Moreno-Beals like a late-night conversation, creating its own atmosphere as the words roll out of his mouth.

"Passage of Pegasus"

“Passage of Pegasus”

They’ve just released  “Passage of Pegasus” – their sixth album in their near-ten-year history – on October 15th, full of music that travels across genders and styles – mostly soft and folky, but also cacophonous and mystical – bringing to mind Nick Cave as well as Bill Callahan. And it’s always smart. “Silent Movie Reel,” which you can stream below, starts off with an almost pop-folk feel, and grows into a soundtrack to an epiphany in a quiet bar. “Explorer” is a tango-esque tune that evokes the off-kilter world of Napoleon Dynamite. Take a look at the video below to see for yourself.

We’re lucky enough in these parts to be on this iconoclastic band’s tour, which – following their true self-guided and ultra-independent nature – stops in some perfectly unusual venues: Friday night’s show – October 25th – is scheduled at the Leon Gallery on 17th Street, and the following night’s Boulder show takes place at Kelly’s Barn (here’s a map). Further proof of their self-driven charisma can be seen in the fact that the Boulder show – $15 suggest donation at the door – is a benefit for Sound Circle Eurythmy (and, by the way, donations of $25 or more gets you a pack of cards).

They’ve also hand-printed each cover for “Passage of Pegasus,” truly making each one a piece of art. You can read some more critical accounts of their music on their booking publicist’s site, PitchPerfectPR.

Get into one of these shows – and this time you can really tell everyone else you actually were there back in the day….

Stream “Silent Movie Reel” below:

Catcht their video for “Explorer,” here:

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  • Billy Thieme

    Aging punk rocker with a deep of all things musical and artistic, enough to remain constantly young and perpetually mystified. Billy has journalistic dreams, but of a decidedly pastoral, Scottish nature.