Eat Your Birthday Cake

Tue., Feb. 16, 9 p.m., $10, with Conversations With Enemies and The Daredevil Christopher Wright, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.

by John Vettese

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Published: Feb 9, 2010

Quiet as a clam, and quirky as a clam steering a Bentley down Frankford Avenue, emerging Philly duo Eat Your Birthday Cake walks the line between silly and sublime. With a cascade of Juno keyboard loops and softly strummed acoustic guitars, their debut, I Know You Can, has a lovely Grandaddy/American Analog Set vibe. But Bill Storck and Marc Neibauer are also professed Jens Lekman fans; they're not doing this without a wink and a grin. The tragicomic "Vegan Leather" concerns an overzealous eco-hippie ("Save the whales and maybe the walrus/ Global warming, Al Gore will solve this") who has no qualms about, say, leather boots or cocaine. Aw, too close to home? Flip ahead to the bip-bopping robot pop of "Peter Pan" and you'll be smiling with 'em in no time.

 

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