If you’re looking for a heavy dose of heavy Friday night, Beat Kitchen is your venue. Young Widows is the headliner but I’m actually more intrigued by opener Shannon Wright, who is performing her first US tour since the 2013 release of In Film Sound. That album is brutal and its songs would be a thrill to see live.
Wright moves from quiet to bombastic throughout In Film Sound. On first listen, I kept thinking of Chicago’s Steve Albini, who helped record two of Wright’s earlier releases. She spent a decade signed to Chicago’s legendary Touch and Go Records.
