Saturday, March 20: Catcher

The Den @ urbanXchange

By Rev. Adam McKinney on March 17, 2010

Ah, boys and girls. Something mysterious and beguiling happens when their voices come together in pairs. The boy's voice is anxious and searching, the salty to the girl's sweet; the girl's voice is simple, a warm embrace, the sweet to the boy's sour. With Catcher, the boy/girl dynamic is well represented, but somehow it comes off lonelier than usual. The two voices intermingle, to be sure, but they sound lost: the boy and the girl at once together and separate, missing and badly needing one another. The songs of Catcher sound like that point deep in a relationship when you start to see the seams; you can feel the end drawing nearer, and begin to pull away from each other - just at the point where you need that embrace more than ever.

[The Den @ urbanXchange, with A Cozy Kitchen, Smile Brigade, 7 p.m., all ages, $5, 1932 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.572.2280]