Party: Whelanslive.com presents DOPE BODY (USA / DRAG CITY)

Party: Whelanslive.com presents DOPE BODY (USA / DRAG CITY)

Whelanslive.com presents
DOPE BODY
(Noise Rock / USA / Drag City Records)

Sat 12th Sept 2015, 8pm

Whelan’s (Upstairs), Wexford Street, Dublin.

Tickets €11 ON SALE NOW via Whelanslive.com & Ticketmaster

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Whelanslive.com are delighted to announce that Baltimore Maryland psych-addled noise rock quartet DOPE BODY will make their Irish debut in Whelans (Upstairs) on September 12th. Dope Body have a reputation for delivering intense live performances that exhilarate in their unpredictability, galvanised in large part by the group’s charismatic lead singer, Andrew Laumann. They create music that punches you square in the forehead. Their sound is an organic, eclectic mix of influences brewed out of furious jam sessions in the bleak and desolate streets of Baltimore. We can’t wait for them to hit the Upstairs stage. Tickets on sale now!

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A frenzied convergence of post-punk danceability and noise rock abrasiveness, Dope Body's sound straddles that fine line between a tightly packed dancefloor and a mosh pit. Evoking some kind of fantasy world where the Jesus Lizard cover Gang of Four while playing through a blown-out PA system, the Baltimore, Maryland quartet of Andrew Laumann, David Jacober, Zachary Utz, and John Jones have been running their influences through a sonic blender since 2008. Since their inception, the band have managed to rack up an impressive discography in a short time, starting with the 2009 EP 20 Pound Brick, which was released on Watercolor. They followed up with the split EP (with Orphan) Self Entitled through Black Tent Press in 2010 before making their full-length debut the following year with Nupping. Dope Body's years of basement and eardrum destruction eventually paid off in 2012 when they hooked up with indie giant Drag City to release their second full-length, Natural History. After relentless touring, the band followed up in 2014 with Lifer

Listen to ‘Hired Gun’
https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/dope-body-hired-gun

Watch Dope Body’s explosive Repo
https://vimeo.com/108581550

Like Dope Body on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/DOPE-BODY/310914069790

On LIFER, Dope Body redefines the aural yawp they have been venting for some time, honing wild windmills into surgical strikes, their gut-busting repulsion-sound continuing to expand without losing any of the feral energy that made a crazed reputation in the already-insane Baltimore music and arts underground. Zachary Utz’s metalloid guitar fingerprints are as uniquely rough and scabrous as ever, but with a few new refinements added to his barrage. Andrew Laumann’s vocal bellow continues to incite a riot of excitement with each additional chorus. David Jacober’s power-and-precision drumming continues to grow in might and scope, driving the songs whether at peaks of volume or the depths of introspection. Plus, bassist John Jones, who joined following the recording of NATURAL HISTORY, contributes to the weird math of Dope Body’s nu-power trio with lines that perfectly expand the bounds for the band.