Pop Mutations & Freakender present:
GIFT
+ special guests
Friday 17th March
Flying Duck

Advance tickets available at https://www.citizenticket.co.uk/events/pop-mutations/

Every moment is a gift. Each moment has richness, complexity, and
singularity. Once it’s gone, it can’t be recaptured. Can you be present?
Can you open yourself up and appreciate it in its fullness — the
ugliness and confusion as well as the beauty and joy? The members of the Brooklyn, NY psychedelic rock quintet GIFT believe you can.
Momentary Presence, their debut set, is a chronicle of that chase, and a celebration of the eternal now.
Those teachings, drawn from Be Here Now, the 1971 spiritual guide and counterculture landmark by guru Ram Dass, feel particularly relevant in 2022. GIFT bandleader TJ Freda, applied those lessons to his own
search for peace. He’s discovered transcendence through music: he
and his bandmates Jessica Gurewitz, Kallan Campbell, Justin
Hrabovsky, and Cooper Naess have a knack for conjuring soundscapes
that are simultaneously turbulent and gorgeous. Right in the middle of
those mixes you’ll find Freda himself, commanding the storm, lighting
lamps in the midst of turmoil, singing about psychic destabilization and
the quest for balance, in a voice that feels like a caress.
GIFT’s debut LP Momentary Presence is a natural match for the new
label co-founded by Oliver Ackermann of New York City noise-rock and
psychedelic legends A Place to Bury Strangers and Death by Audio.
Out on Dedstrange Records on Oct. 14, 2022.