Mother Mother to ‘Dance and Cry’ in Edmonton
The band so nice they named it twice is coming back to Edmonton yet again – and we couldn’t be happier.
Mother Mother has included the Jubilee Auditorium on its most ambitious tour so far – 40 dates across North America on the “Dance and Cry” tour, named for the band’s seventh studio album, out Nov. 2. Tickets for their Friday, Feb. 15 show in Edmonton go on sale Nov. 9, with a pre-sale before the sale starting Feb. 3. This is the band’s first appearance in the Jube.
Mother Mother has been here a lot, big clubs, small clubs, festivals, and they’re always welcome. The Vancouver quintet has eked out a niche in the stranger corners of modern rock, with sophisticated music that still manages to strike a chord, so to speak, and become a staple of pop radio. Several chords, crunchy chords, learned in jazz college by the chief songwriter Ryan Guldemond, who with his wing-women Molly Guldemond and Jasmin Parkin get compared to the B-52s. Yet Motherx2’s dark cast perhaps owes more to another new wave legend, the Talking Heads. Also Pink Floyd. Music critics grapple with comparisons in the face of true originality.
