Tilly And The Wall Return And Throw A Love Riot

By Tankboy in Arts & Entertainment on Sep 27, 2012 7:20PM

Photo by Jason Meintjes

Tilly And The Wall have been pretty quiet since their last album was released four years ago. Those were heady times, huh? The notion that it was OK to dance had infiltrated the indie community, and the airwaves were full of energetic bands looking to carve out a spot under the disco ball. Oh wait, that was ten years ago. Or last month. So we guess not much has changed. Which is fitting because neither has Tilly And The Wall.

Their new album Heavy Mood kicks off with "Love Riot" and immediately states the band's aural mission statement: we're going to dance, we're going to rock, we're going to party and it's all coming through on high energy, day-glo tunes. But this isn't a simply surface affair and there is an emotional yearning that occasionally breaks through the surface, as on the yearning "Static Expression." These moments help break up the tempo of the record without every actually slowing down its progress. And that helps support our belief that what Tilly And The Wall does best is create meaningful dance music that relies on human sweat and not computer bits and bytes. It's got a heartbeat and you can dance to it.

Tilly And The Wall play on October 8 at Lincoln Hall, 8 p.m., $18, 18+