The Flavr Blue at Neumos with MackNed, Isabella Du Graf & BLUEYEDSOUL

Neumos & KEXP Present:
The Flavr Blue with Mackned + Isabella Du Graf
8pm doors || $15 advance || All ages, bar with ID

The band’s success is driven by the way its members — lead singer Hollis Wong-Wear, whose voice graced the Billboard Top 20 hit “White Walls” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and singer/producers Lace Cadence and Parker Joe, each with a litany of Seattle hip-hop and R&B releases under their belts — weave their voices and eclectic experimentalism within a rich electronic landscape. It’s been that way since the beginning, when they first built tracks in a half-bedroom turned studio in Parker’s Beacon Hill townhouse. It grew as they translated the sounds to wild live shows, for crowds both charmed and electrified by their combination of heartfelt soul and energetic electronica.

Love Notes pushes the Flavr Blue’s sound further still, toward an even deeper musicality; they effortlessly blend a range of textures that recall Aaliyah’s slinky sensuality, Beach House’s washed out reverberations, and Prince’s fidelity to the pop hook. The music is still passionately handmade; Love Notes, like releases before, is a true collaboration between three creative minds (and, like their earliest music, was recorded mostly in that same half-bedroom). It’s that spirit — a collective enveloping and integrating of new sounds, their DIY ethos matched with a captivating polish— that truly defines the Flavr Blue, and makes their future so promising.