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Date

Saturday, August 3, 2024 8:00PM

Description

The State Theatre Presents

L.C. Franke

with Jo Alice

The State Theatre
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm

L.C. Franke celebrates the release of his debut album Still in Bloom at The State Theatre accompanied by his tiny but mighty orchestra featuring some of Austin's most lauded musicians. Easy listening for anxious times, torch songs for a world on fire, orchestral pop for the algorithm age: this is the twilit milieu of L.C. Franke, whose debut album Still In Bloom builds a bridge between twentieth-century nostalgia and our modern alienation. Across ten tracks of pure mood-indigo music, inspired by the jazz-club savoir faire of artists like Frank Sinatra, Scott Walker, and Ella Fitzgerald, Franke’s barstool croon smolders against a backdrop of woodwind trills and string quartet swells. It’s a musical tonic that pairs equally well with gin and general malaise—light on the ears, heavy on the heart.

Rolling Stone - "Songs You Need To Know"
Magnet - "Best of SXSW 2024"
KUTX - “multitalented songwriter and vocalist bringing you into a moonlit fold of smoldering, sophisticated jazz-pop”

Jo Alice was born in Faro, Portugal to a French father and an Anglo-Irish mother. She spent her formative years between the south of Portugal and the west coast of Ireland where her musical talents began to flourish. A chance encounter in 2017 prompted her to move to Los Angeles and begin her career as a musician. Fluent in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and English, Jo Alice's influences are evident in her poetic lyrics and thoughtful melodies. For the past year she has been recording her debut LP in Austin with Britt Daniel (Spoon), Mike McCarthy (Spoon, A Giant Dog), and Stephen Patterson (Hamilton Leithauser, White Rabbits).