Cinema Cinema, “Lady Abortion” and “Pleased to Meet You, Anesthesia”.
Couple of rowdies from Brooklyn who did a radio interview/live performance last night on Western Connecticut State University’s WXCI, and who play The Space in Hamden tonight (Sat., July 23) with Dalliance, White Savages, The Monumentos, Fifties Slang and Modus Operandi.

You’ve got to give Cinema Cinema props for variety. They can move from slow moody inner musings to high squeals of feedback within a single song. Their questionable tastes (apparent in their song titles) are intriguing, and they clearly play better than they let on. They answer to “experimental,” but also to “freak-out, fucked-up,” in the early ‘70s Zappa or ‘90s Oh My God sense. You just know they’ve got to be a singular live experience.