VILLAGE VOICE: Datebook
VILLAGE VOICE: Datebook
BY RICHARD GEHR
"While Tigue’s website boasts that 'we hit things with other types of things,' that’s only about half the Brooklyn percussion trio’s equation. Like light itself, Tigue’s music is a combination of waves and particles, of percussive strikes and distended drones adding up to either abstractly challenging pop or accessible contemporary classical music, depending on your point of view. Ohioans Matt Evans, Amy Garapic, and Carson Moody have been playing together since 2012. Their 2015 debut, Peaks, featured bongos, frying pan, droning Shruti box, melodica, tin can, and electronic keyboards over a diverse array of tracks. Tigue’s new Strange Paradise, however, distills their sound down to three constantly evolving longer tracks inviting habitation, contemplation, and a groovy sort of meditation the band characterizes as 'ecstatic complexity.'"