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Orders Goes INDIEpendent

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If you’re faltering / while your notions fall away / it’s okay / you’ll overcome this,” sing Jared Blumer and Andy Tucker midway through Works and Days,” the first track to Orders’ new EP, also titled Works & Days. An inventive soundscape blooms around them: Robyn Buttery’s violin levels out the vocalists, building a platform for them to launch into the chorus; Dan Duetsch keeps a persistent, danceable beat, and the singers raise their voices in return.

A mixed but promising first release, Works & Days is at its best when channeling groups like The Poem Adept and Vanity Project, a hint of Steven Page sneaking into St. Rita” as well as the title track. With Blumer leading members forward like a tentative but knowledgeable tour guide, the pieces are wholesome in a toe-tapping sort of way: an ambivalent garage band vibe is superseded by the urge to dust off your dancing shoes and take them for a spin or two. Buttery is a welcome and utterly delightful surprise in this capacity, shining especially bright in Strings At Her End,” where the instrumentals carry Blumer’s wavering, almost Meloy-esque voice.

Blumer’s lyrics, meanwhile — fully in touch with his rich inner world, as well as the listeners’ outer one — are what make the EP so much his product. Indicative of his strong and shifting moral compass, they were also the driving force behind INDIEpendence Day, an all-ages benefit concert for the ACLU of Connecticut that will be held at The Space this Thursday (for more information, click here).

Rock For A Cause

My music is very much tied to the suffering and the trials and tribulations of humanity as a whole … I play music to make the world a better place,” said Blumer. I chose the ACLU because they have a broad set of interests and such a storied history of accomplishments. I wanted an organization that privileged the right to free speech … I think that that means a lot of different things to different people. This event came from trying to make this event more inclusive and more tolerating. I was trying to create a culture of inclusion and acceptance.”

That attempt is captured in the diversity of independent music groups that will take the stage Thursday night, including Violent Mae, Dr. Martino, Dangerous Animals, Spectral Fangs, and Orders. Each, Blumer says, will bring its own spin on independent counterculture, free speech, and equality to the venue. To raise donations, the band is also raffling off a vinyl copy of Modest Mouse’s The Moon & Antarctica and Middletown-based Ryan Kalentkowski’s art.

It’s more than revisiting what liberty means after such a gleeful nationwide display of our independence, Blumer says. I want people to know that they are being supported … to know that they’re not alone. A lot of art and music is barred from young people, and its them who need the most support.”

I was looking for bands in the Indie community and identified with independent thought,” he added, and I found them.”

Check out Works & Days on Orders’ Bandcamp page. INDIEpendence day is this Thursday at the Space. For tickets and more information, visit the venue’s website.

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