Dearling Physique Videos

Perhaps to exorcise all the evil juju that comes along with tearing down a revered musical institution, the Apple Store in Uptown has been hosting a series of national and local acts in their cavernous new space. It also (along with the ever-changing upgrades and new models released by the generally benign but often grouchy reign of Overlord Jobs) gives people a reason to go into the store to drum up business for multi-colored earbuds or rubber bouncy things designed to correct your hand for being a less then perfect antenna. (I kid, please don’t wipe my hard drive by remote.)

Dearling Physique at the Apple Store from CakeIn15 on Vimeo.

All that said, the Apple Store was a contextually weird place for electro-art-dance-insert-hyphen-modifier-here-act Dearling Physique. The architecture of brushed metal and video screens really suited the band well in terms of aesthetic, but for their performance on the 31st it was inescapable that they were performing in a store, which made it stranger than any dark club experience with the band. An in-store is generally a more nonchalant affair but you can’t do nonchalant with Dearling Physique. As the video shows, you go all out, never-surrender dedication to warping tropes of masculinity through theatrics and intense layers of dance, electronically altered guitars and rattling drums. A Dearling Physique show, regardless of whether or not it is in a well-lit retail environment in the middle of the day, is an event and an experience, and that’s what makes it great. You can get more of the event and experience tonight at Hell’s Kitchen as part of the kick-off for frontman Domino, who is heading off to Europe, and the official release of the video for “Sleep and the Heart”, featuring c.a.s. of CakeIn15 (Apple and shameless self-promotion seem to go pretty well together). It all goes down at 8 and is free, so go get your art on and pick up a dance move or two to face down a normative hegemonic system, or for when you’re waiting on the next available “genius”.