Stockholm's Axel Willner mesmerized critics, and a surprising number of crossover listeners, with 2007's From Here We Go Sublime, which felt like a single trancey groove stretched out to infinity, or at least album length. Without straying too far afield, Yesterday and Today — out this week on ANTI-, thereby making Willner a highly improbable labelmate to Case, Cave and Waits — finds the Swede broadening his options to include rubbery basslines, live drums, motorik electro-funk and a tender, surprisingly straight-ahead vocal cover that trumps his typically subtle, subversively sneaky sampling tendencies.
Fri., May 22, 9 p.m., $10-$12, Making Time Ninth Anniversary Freakout with The Juan MacLean, Pure, 1221 St. James St., 215-735-5772, igetrvng.com.
Fri., May 22, 5:45 and 7:15 p.m., free with museum admission of $14, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th Street and Ben Franklin Parkway, 215-763-8100, philamuseum.org.
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