Conversion Party will celebrate new EP and sixth anniversary of Cake Shop tonight
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow St.
Saturday, May 7, $6, 10:30
212-253-0036
www.cake-shop.com
www.myspace.com/conversionparty
If you missed Conversion Party’s EP release celebration last night at Bruar Falls, you can catch the Brooklyn-based band tonight as part of Cake Shop’s sixth anniversary show. The four-track Favors, what they’re calling their “proper debut,” was a long time coming; the group, which originally hails from New London, Connecticut, put out More No More back in 2008, but the Matthew-heavy band has come a long way since then. Featuring Matthew Allen on guitar, bass, and drums, Matthew Clark on keyboards, Matt Potter on drums, Alex Waxman on guitar, and Ben Johnson on guitar and bass, Conversion Party plays hook-laden, guitar-driven indie pop with howling background vocals, ethereal bridges, and offbeat lyrics. “Well, I only missed you / because you were gone / Maybe it was you or your sister / You would be so mad / if you knew what I did / But I swear I only kissed her,” they sing on “Teeth.” Favors also includes the psychedelic “In the Mountains,” the Bowie-esque “Birds of Paradise Lost,” and the mostly instrumental shoegazer “Let Us All,” which adds drowned-out out vocals in the latter part. Look for them to also play the quirky ass-kicker “Awake,” one of our favorite songs of the year. A true collaborative effort with multiple songwriters and vocalists, Conversion Party goes on at 10:30 at Cake Shop, preceded by Ariana Reines at 7:30, Fanuelle at 8:30, and Holy Shit at 9:30 and followed by Surf City at 11:30 and the Beets at midnight.