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Gliss at Silverlake Lounge in Silverlake, CA - 9/15/05
Its hard to understand just what singer Martin Klingman is getting at with his dramatic but strangely inhibited vocals (more a whisper than a scream), and although his pained rasp can be rather alluring, its no less frustrating when one thinks of its potential in combination with these songs, for somewhere below the surface is a voice that wants to emote, if it doesnt want to scream. Lead singer aside, Gliss could be labeled gothic, but theyre set apart by a seamless incorporation of strutting dance beats, eerie surf guitars, and pitch-black atmospherics. Live, they are everything their debut EP, Kick in Your Heart promises: hypnotic, searing, and pleasantly creepy. They play mood music, much in the way Interpol does, or even Mazzy Star. To open their set, they chose three tracks that feature a drum machine; and by marrying synthetic beats with swirling guitars to such sublime ends, they managed to resemble at times a late-period Smashing Pumpkins (Adore, Machina...), with the excellent songs Velvet Stars and Kissing the Blvd. For the remainder of the show, the trio took turns on real drums, with bass guitarist, Victoria Cecilia offering simple but effective playing on Halfway Gone and Peeping Tom. Ironically, they didnt play one of the better songs from the EP (Strongest Side of Me) but did include the outstanding Blue Sky, which is not on that record.
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