Sexy times

Perfect Pussy had an odd genesis. The core was collected to appear as a band in the John Cusack-starring film Adult World, then morphed into the real thing. As you'd expect from a combo born from the fires of the Syracuse punk scene, they're a noisy lot. Frontwoman Meredith Graves has gotten raves for her extroverted performance and the rest of the group make a suitably raucous clatter. Their debut LP Say Yes To Love has also won a lot of raves (also some lukewarm reviews, but nothing too negative). A big crowd showed up at Gabba Hey to see what the fuss was about, along with excellent sets from Blue Angel and Big Dick.

Angelic action!



No, that's not Sam from Organ Eyes, but Joel from such combos as Asile.



Shadowy action with Caylie!



Blue action!



The whole lot!



Masked action!



Extra Joel!



Feather boa action!



Big Dick's muscular post-punk also made for a good fit with the headliner. Without wanting to sound like too much of a homer, I thought they played a better-sounding set as well.



Johnny sings!



Dave sings!



Fisheye action!



Shadowy action!



Extra Dave!



The whole lot!



Perfect Pussy played a very short set, which seems appropriate for a band whose debut album only runs to about 24 minutes. There was some enthusiastic moshing and the whole thing wrapped up with the dazed crowd watching noisemaker in chief Shaun Sutkus work some distortion. Here's Emily and guitarist Ray McAndrew.



I still have no idea what Sutkus looks like.



Perfect action!



Rhythm section action with drummer Garrett Koloski and bassist Greg Ambler!



Garrett certainly kept things moving along.



Corded action!



And so on!



The whole lot!



They've been burdened with some excess hype, but I can definitely see the substance.