Tonight: Silent Drape Runners re-imagines Twin Peaks


If you're searching for the most unorthodox way possible to spend your Memorial Day evening, then this has got to be it: tonight at The Goat Farm you can enjoy the pilot episode of Twin Peaks, David Lynch's surreal odyssey into the nigh-supernatural mythos of an unassuming small town. What takes this experience to the next level, however, is the re-imagining of the soundtrack by Silent Drape Runners - a duo comprising of Sophie Weiner on vocals and Atlanta native Russ Marshalek, now based out of Brooklyn, with a sound self-described as "Lynchian pop". I have no idea what that means, precisely, nor if this is a genre with a grand-total membership of one at the moment. But after hunting down some of their stuff on the internet, I imagine that if David Lynch's universe - spawned by the unsettlingly indistinct divide between dreamscape, reality and the supernatural - transubstantiated into the realm of the audio, then Silent Drape Runners has become the medium of that sound - something of an ambient blend of electronic effects, sinister distortions, and introspective shoegazing, as well as (by their own description) cats, glitter, and feelings, if a synesthesia of the first two with an aural aesthetic is at all physically possible.  If that's not enough for you, they'll be joined by Lucy Dreams and Promise Keeper. The surreal trip begins tonight at 9pm at The Goat Farm, tix for $7.