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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Unsound Adelaide review – breaking ground with unorthodox live sounds

Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide Festival
Babyfather, Tralala Blip and Jlin use beauty, stealth and force to convert audiences to unfamiliar sounds

Some say the music of Unsound is “difficult”. But difficult to one is eyes-closed, body-slumped bliss to another. The phrase “boundary-pushing” is problematic too because boundaries are only pushed if you’ve already got them drawn.

The Unsound faithful – me included – rarely do. Our taste isn’t shoehorned into closed ideas of what we like or don’t like but defined by an open-mindedness that requests one thing: be interesting. Play me something I haven’t heard or take me somewhere I’ve haven’t been. Embody the essence of something or its genesis. Convince me by stealth or by force, by brutality or brains.

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