Saturday 8/31 at Dürty Nelly’s
Self-described as an “imaginative, maximalist, feminist rock band based in Brooklyn,” partygirl is just about what you’d expect from a group with that description. While the band flaunts an aversion to capital letters and proper spacing, the defining difference in the thickly smothered walls of indie rock held up by the band arrives in the voice of Pagona Kytzidis. Her throaty vocals dive low, warble vulnerably, and sail high over the generally restrained set of songs that comprise partygirl’s 2022 self-titled EP. While the group comes across like young adults (you’d have a difficult time making them laugh for the right reasons), it’ll be interesting to see how its members keep that level of presumed sophistication going with half-drunk audience members pushing sandwiches into their faces.
Fellow Brooklynites PANIK FLOWER make up for partygirl’s lack of capitalization and offers more than its touring counterparts’ less fully realized sound. A gauzy pop that pumps more than anything remotely shoegaze oriented, PANIK FLOWER’s 2023 Dark Blue EP demonstrates the band’s commitment to an aesthetic pursued by vocalist Sage Leopold and convincingly supported by the guitar/bass/drum arrangements executed by the rest of the band with an early ’90s college rock kick.—CM Gorey