Sean Nicholas Savage + Intro to Film Theory + Elizabete Balčus

In the organizer's words:

Prolific songwriter and lush indie balladeer Sean Nicholas Savage explores warped takes on New Romantic pop with a sizable series of releases. Coming up as part of a thriving Montreal underground scene, his songwriting incorporated a plethora of influences and styles as it developed, with his different albums tying in elements of wistful sophisti-pop, breezy disco, and dabblings of folk balladry and city pop on his 2022 Mac DeMarco-produced effort, Shine. In 2024, Trilogy collected choice cuts from his early catalog, and in 2025, his next album, The Knowing embraced high-definition pop without a hint of shame.

Elizabete Balčus is a Latvian musician and performance artist who creates neo-psychedelic dream pop from surprising, collaged, genre juxtapositions that is simultaneously melodic and experimental. She works with a strong visual aesthetic that draws upon modern surrealism, contemporary fashion and geometric imagery. Anything is permitted in her musical cosmos: looping flute and voice, clicking electro pop beats and playing vegetables as a synthesizer, leaving the listener in a blissed out trance like state, somewhere between the waking and sleeping.

Rachel Taylor (Slipper) and Candelaria Saenz Valiente (Pictorial Candi) came into orbit of each other mid 2024. The loop had a strong swing that brought Sean Armstrong (also Slipper) and Tomek Pop in. From afar it looks like a warm dessert cut down the middle by a razor's edge. A closer listen reveals the warmth as layered vocals and seasoned writing, a pulp fiction foaming loosely over a grinding punk drummer's beat. Playing now for a fourth time ever: Intro to Film Theory!