Danielson at Chop Suey Tonight

Currently enjoying premium real estate in the coveted "Best New Music" space on Pitchfork, Danielson (aka Daniel Smith) allegedly rocks - in italics - "with blaring trumpets signaling snares to exact their force beneath sweeping multitracked vocal choruses that simply won't stop crescendoing." The same article also claims that Sufjan Stevens serves as Danielson's "acolyte," which conjures up all kinds of unrelated and unfortunate images.

The artist himself describes his music in this three-month-old press release "as deeply rewarding in a literary-visual-musical way as canonical acts such as Sun Ra, Parliament and David Bowie." But is he telling the truth? Seattlest will have to see for ourselves tonight and judge this hyperbole deserved or wanting.

Tonight at Chop Suey, 8pm. All ages.