Dos Santos (Chicago) @ Limbo Room (Dallas) City of Mirror Album Tour
"The new album from Dos Santos, City of Mirrors, also reflects a band convinced that artistic ideas and political ones are not necessarily at odds, but different sides of the same truth. A relentlessly kaleidoscopic mosaic of novel sound pairings propelled by Latin rhythms, the album evokes the crisp air, soft color, and enveloping warmth of a greenhouse. Between lyrics on starry nights and cinnamon skin, Chávez also sings of the real consequences befalling real people in front of him. On the title track, a love song to Puerto Rico, he narrates flooded streets and houses collapsed by natural disaster, while a baritone sax and clarinet duel toe-to-toe like hope and grief.
City of Mirrors is easily Dos Santos’ most expansive album, partially a result of the band’s decision to hire its first outside producer (Elliot Bergman of Wild Belle). The first thing you hear on opener “A Shot in the Dark” is a community of voices: high, chopped nasal shouts that chime over a lilting bassline, adding a chromatic tint to Chávez’s falsetto when he cuts in—the stained glass to his beam of light. It’s an inviting and original first impression, opening up the ingenious possibilities of the studio as an instrument, and one of the band’s best songs to date". - Steven Arroyo, Pitchfork.
All Ages // 6:30pm to 10pm // $15 pre-sale // $20 at the door
