UPDATED: 11/14//19 10:15 a.m.
Kero Kero Bonito's Sarah Midori Perry has strep throat, and the band, along with opener Negative Gemini, has canceled shows in Tampa, Orlando and Gainesville. Refunds are available at point of purchase.
ATTN: Orlando and Tampa pic.twitter.com/1phN2EB7yt
— Kero Kero Bonito (@KeroKeroBonito) November 13, 2019
With its 2016 debut album Bonito Generation, young London act Kero Kero Bonito made a bright splash, landing somewhere in a sweet spot between British and Japanese pop. Despite the cute and seemingly basic appeal of that initial emergence, the outfit is proving anything but straightforward or disposable.
By the time it came back around with 2018 follow-up Time ’n’ Place, the Polyvinyl Records band had graduated and morphed into a realized pop kaleidoscope sparkling with shards of synth, J-pop, noise, rock and a now-generation outlook that completely obliterates the borders that divide those styles. (Show up early for the pop-laced, late-night house-music pulse of notable American electronic artist Negative Gemini.)
Kero Kero Bonito w/Negative Gemini. Thurs. Nov. 14, 7 p.m. $18-$30. Orpheum, Ybor City.
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This article appears in Nov 7-14, 2019.