Curtains For You ::: all photos by Abbey Simmons

Last night Curtains For You played to a crowd that treated them like the pop sensations they well may become.  When the band took the stage, women screamed like they were The Beatles. Curtains For You got a bigger reaction just stepping on stage than most bands get when a Seattle audience is demanding an encore.

As someone who’d slept on Curtains For You until now, the audience obviously knew something I didn’t: this band is one of Seattle’s best barely kept secrets and with what they bring to the stage, they won’t be a Seattle secret for long. Their new record What A Lovely Surprise To Wake Up Here, for which the night’s show was a CD release party, has a number of radio ready songs, retro-pop that’s as primed to melt hearts as it is to put a bounce in one’s step. At their best, Curtains For You sounds like the Fruit Bats with swooning, sunny, Beach Boys harmonies. Is what Curtains For You is doing new and innovative? No. But it is timeless, and incredibly well crafted.

The band played all but a couple of tracks off their new CD and managed to sound just as perfectly polished as they do on what listens like a painstakingly recorded and mixed album.  Lead singer and song-writer Matt Gervais is a natural frontman, interacting warmly with both the audience and his band members. He brought a little rock ‘n roll to the lush pop sounds with jumps and high kicks that one would usually expect at an antic-filled punk show. Highlights of the evening included Peter Fedofsky’s and Gervais clever pop phrasing on songs like  “Title Bout,” “Dumb Angel,” and “Small Change,” a sly vaudevillian pop number which featured bassist Nick Holman and guitarist Mike Gervais on euphonium, saxophone, and do-be-doo-wop backing.

Everything about the evening was impressive, from the songs, to the showmanship, to the devoted audience that danced and sang along to every tune. Curtains For You is definitely a band to keep an eye and an ear on. Songs this catchy are made to be enjoyed by the masses and Curtains For You is good enough that they should be.

See More Photos On Flickr: Curtains For You CD Release Show - November 13th