In the grand Kevin Bacon game that is indie-rock, Cryptacize co-founder Nedelle Torrisi is the connective thread between Sufjan Stevens and Ariel Pink. (She appears on Sufjan's new Carrie & Lowell and used to live with Haunted Graffiti member Kenny Gilmore.) "Don't Play Dumb" -- from Torrisi's self-titled 2013 LP, soon to be reissued on vinyl under the title Advice From Paradise -- illustrates that connection, landing somewhere between the digital distress of The Age Of Adz and the soft-rock bloodletting of Pink's "Picture Me Gone." In retrospect, the track's processed, MIDI-esque take on synthpop feels like a precursor for the whole PC Music thing.(Btw, one of those background vocalists is Julia Holter.) For the video, Torrisi posed as a Target employee -- and she director Travis Peterson were kicked out of Target twice while filming -- who also watches Family Guy on her laptop and dances at the club all by her lonesome. Watch the mesmerizing footage below.
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Torrisi is touring with Of Montreal right now. Dates:
01/13 Tallahassee, FL @ The Moon *
01/14 Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall *
01/15 Gainesville, FL @ High Dive *
01/16 Orlando, FL @ The Social *
01/17 Tampa, FL @ Crowbar *
01/18 Miami, FL @ Grand Central *
01/19 Jacksonville, FL @ Freebird Live *
01/20 Macon, GA @ Cox Capitol Theatre *
01/21 Charleston, SC @ The Pour House *
01/22 Greensboro, NC @ The Blind Tiger *
01/23 Nashville, TN @ Mercury Lounge *
01/24 Chattanooga, TN @ Rhythm and Brews *
* = w/ Of Montreal
Advice From Paradise is out 2/17 on Ethereal Sequence/Drag City.
