Vancouver synth pop band Rococode drew heavily from the ’80s f
or their set of bright, upbeat, sometimes droning synth pop music at the Slice, Nov. 20, but they didn’t have many people there to hear them.
They didn’t mind. They were lost in their rhythms and ambient pop.
Andrew Braun and Laura Smith stood centre stage, facing each other bobbing their heads and pounding their keyboard as their band grooved in the shadows.
Andrew Braun switched to guitar for some of their older, more rock influenced numbers, but the show was primarily about the pop and lots of it.
As a further nod to the ’80s they played a original cover of INXS's ’88s hit “Never Tear us Apart.” They then slowed things down for more spooky, slower fare.
— By Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
