Seamless style to grace Rhino's

Merrill Garbus, better known as tUnE-yArDs, has described her style as wild, according to her Facebook page.

Listening to tUnE-yArDs’ music, one can find a number of loops with Garbus’ vocals and instrumental pieces put together into single songs.

On the Facebook page for the musician, under her interests, Garbus writes, “WILD CATS. And altering the way the music industry functions to positively and responsibly impact our communities and our people, to act not only as soothing pacifiers with music but also activators, inspiring innovators and revolutionary booty-shakers.”

After releasing her newest EP “Gangsta” last month, tUnE-yArDs is performing at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Rhino’s Youth Center.

“There are still tickets available,” said Dave Walters, director of the youth video program. “There’ve been a lot of calls, though. People are pretty
interested.”

While Walters was not able to recall if tUnE-yArDs had ever played at Rhino’s before, he was able to talk about his previous experience seeing the musician.

“I thought it was very interesting. I immediately liked her and her ability to seamlessly pull off the loops she did live,” Walters said.

James Paasche, sales clerk at Landlocked Music, had similar thoughts about the musician.

“High-concept but low-fidelity,” Paasche said. “The way she puts things together is very intricate and done well but executed with really simple instruments and really simple beats.”

Paasche describes the musician’s style as “joyous.”

“I heard her first album and it was really low-fi, and it was just a bedroom recording. Her new album sounds so much better and bigger,” Paasche said. “I’m really excited for the
show.”

— Raven Carpenter