Street Fruit + Ar Karics

TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Coasting into town on fumes, late and not speaking to each other because nobody would stop to ask for directions, The Ar-Kaics take their cues from the first wave of ‘60s punk — American teenagers taking cues from the British Invasion, in turn taking cues from pilfers of the hinterland originators — with the added vantage of several subsequent decades worth of wayward balladeers, no names and psychedelic rock hangovers.
The Ar-Kaics have been delivering their off-brand, spot-on garage rock originals out of Richmond, VA, via a flood of small press singles and a s/t debut album - all of which have since become highly desirable in the collectors market - and several successful DIY tours across the lower 48, with shows in Canada and Europe to boot. Since, they've drifted around some, gotten and lost jobs, opened a record store and label, and started families.
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What began in 2019 as a long-awaited creative reunion between long-time comrades Philipp Minnig (Sugar &Gold, Dura-Delinquent) and Hans Dobbratz (Gravid Wives, Dura-Delinquent) quickly evolved into something fargreater when drummer Tiffanie Lanmon (Mirror Travel, Jess Williamson, Suki Waterhouse) and bassist CyrusGengras (Kevin Morby, Jessica Pratt) joined the fold. Together, the four-piece forged a scrambled, elasticgrammar, music as legible in a backyard punk show as it is explosive in a stadium, rigged with trap doors thatconstantly pulled the floorout from under rock ’n’ roll.
With ‘Strange Tanks’, Street Fruit expanded the foundation laid on their 2022 debut ‘Beneath The Screen’,sculpting a sound both unruly and razor-sharp. The new record blends drunken, lurching riffs with wiry stabs ofguitar, slinky rhythmic undercurrents,and melodies that oscillate between playful and punishing. Lyrically, theband pushes beyond the caustic humour and libidinal bite of their early work, carving out unexpected pockets ofromance, repose, and redemption. Tracked to 2” tape at 64 Sound withengineer Jimmy Dixon, the album leansinto the studio’s vintage gear to create a heavier, warmer, more tactile sonic world, one that mutates and revealsitself in new ways with every listen.