Noise Pop with Kelley Stoltz Saturday, Feb. 26, stage 8:30pm Cafe du Nord

Cafe du Nord with Chris Gallagher Wednesday, Dec 1, door 9:30pm, stage 11pm

Figure & Ground Party at Cafe du Nord Wednesday, June 9, door 8:30pm

Bottom of the Hill with Sanford Arms Sunday, May 23, door 4pm, stage 6pm

The Elbo Room with Rana Saturday, Apr. 17, door 9pm, stage 12am

Slim's with The Proclaimers Wednesday, Apr. 7, door 7:30pm, stage 8pm

The Hotel Utah Saturday, Mar. 20, door 8pm, stage 11pm

Noise Pop @ Thee Parkside Saturday, Feb. 28, stage 6pm

Cafe du Nord Monday, Feb. 23, stage 10pm

Slim's Thursday, Jan. 29, stage 8pm

The Makeout Room Wednesday, Dec. 3, stage 10pm

The Great American Music Hall Saturday, Nov. 29, stage 9pm

Slim's Monday, Oct. 27, stage 9pm

Rhapsody Music Service [Fayvor Love] specializes in creating moody setpieces with paranoid energy and literary smarts. Performer Magazine, April 2004 Imagine the disc Bryan Ferry as a seminary student would release, and you'd be close to describing Figure & Ground. Fayvor Love croons romantic, but chastely... He's crafted twelve tuneful songs, sung well in a distinctive voice.... Love's musical influences on this low-tech, no distortion production include Ferry himself, the Police, U2, and others of that era. He's backed up by double-jointed drummer Serena Ho and bassist Tomas Matza. Ho keeps tight time, propelling “16 Minutes to Paradise”... Two tracks that stand out after repeated listenings are “16 Minutes to Paradise” and “It Never Happened.” Smooth and passionate, “16 Minutes” features a catchy delay-heavy chorus and a vocal coda that sounds eerily like Erasure. The latter track, a strummed ballad of infidelity and denial, sports a nice tune and lyrical imagery... “Incompleteness {Interlude}” plays like a B-side from Synchronicity (“My essential self is undergoing radical revision” plus 11 other dense lines ending in –ion). Figure & Ground stands out for its songwriting and vocals...