Australia’s Sherlock’s Daughter comes to the Bowery Ballroom and the Music Hall of Williamsburg this week (photo by Kyle Dean Reinford)
Monday, September 13, Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St., $25, 8:00
Tuesday, September 14, Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North Sixth St., $25, 8:00
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Based in Sydney, five-piece band Sherlock’s Daughter, led by New Zealand vocalist Tanya Horo, is touring behind its self-titled five-song EP, which features beautiful harmonies, soothing melodies, and alluring rhythms. Guitarist Tim Maybury, bassist Liam Flanagan, electronics specialist Jonti Animal, and drummer William Russell create mysterious sounds that wrap around you with just the right amount of uneasiness to keep you slightly off balance but always wanting more on such welcoming tunes as “Sons and Daughters,” “Song for Old People,” and “Kids.” And they also have a way of making relatively mundane lyrics float wonderfully in the ether; on “In the End,” Horo sings, “In the end we will hold on to all that’s in our hearts / Don’t be sad or be frightened / We don’t need to part / Love can’t hurt us now,” and you believe every word of it. They’ll be playing the Bowery Ballroom on September 13 and the Music Hall of Williamsburg on September 14, opening up for this small little British band known as Charlatans UK.