Gates with Tiny Moving Parts, Frameworks and Lighthouses at The Bourbon

photos and words by JP Davis

The Bourbon’s front room was filled, and the crowd packed like sardines in front of, as it’s more locally known, “the small stage.” This was all to revel in the touring package Frameworks, Tiny Moving Parts and Gates.

Local band Lighthouses opened Friday’s show. They seemed to sneak themselves into the pre-show chatter with a pulsating kick/snare pattern and reverberating guitar tones, eventually enveloping the room in a white noise curtain of half-timed, post-rock-inspired hardcore.

Lighthouses

Gainesville post-hardcore outfit Frameworks took the stage next. The act began as a barrage of pulsing instrumentals and harsh screamo vocals, and dwindled into twinkly soundscapes and soft-spoken poetry. The band is touring in support of its new LP, Loom, to be released on Topshelf Records this month.

Frameworks

Minnesota band Tiny Moving Parts was immediately confronted with its Nebraska past when it took the stage at The Bourbon, memories from old Kearney, Neb., house shows. At the beginning of their set, a member of the crowd mumbled, “Wait, I think I played strip poker with those guys.” Vocalist Dylan Mattheisen seemed to half-sing, half-vomit his words. Bodies became frozen, and eyes glazed over as he sang winning lines like, “I have never been so scared and sad at the same time.”

Tiny Moving Parts

Gates headlined Friday’s show. They passed on any in-house light shows, setting up their own flaring array of lanterns. gates played with a symphony-like composition of voluminous guitar swells and tremolo picking, tastefully triggering the lights with each climax.