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Feb 04

We hear shades of The Flaming Lips’ deep-space ennui present in “Whiskey”, the latest from Brooklyn quintet Lowry, who begin their eight week residency at Williamsburg’s Spike Hill this evening.

At a time when the label “indie” has blurred to include major label heavy hitters like Coldplay (much like the 90s “alternative” came to include Sheryl Crow), it’s incredibly refreshing to hear a group hewing so perilously close to the genre’s trappings while remaining so vitally…