"You're very pretty" somebody shouts from the audience.
"Thanks," Danz replies from behind her synthesizer and that's about as much excitement as we get from last Friday at Webster. This is not necessarily a surprise or a bad thing. Danz and her three piece band Computer Magic are not selling thrills, more a sort of ambient melodiousness that juts out discretely from the twinkling and subdued sound.
On record, Computer magic's current album is smart, quiet, synth rock. A sorta subdued smartness. Not back ground, Danz is way on top of the mix, but the beats are almost dubby in their hollowness and the music is amorphous; it is good to work by because you can pay and lose attention at the same time.
Good for work.
A drag on stage.
The band sounds good, looks OK but are inert and boring. There is not even a light show and what lights there are are dim. In other words, they suffer from Indieitis. Almost impossible to concentrate on, it is great music to buy drinks at the bar to. I have no idea how you solve a problem like Danz. Like a four string quartet, you are just in it for the sound.
Grade: B