Reverse Yr Curse, Outer World, Sister Planet, Charm Offensive

at The Camel

Sat Jan 17, 2026

Doors 8pm, Show 9pm

REVERSE YR CURSE are making an artful, nuanced sort of indie rock music in

Richmond, Virginia; culled from decades worth of equally oversized record

collections and neuroses. Lyrics point to struggle on both the micro and macro

level, within and without. There’s an air of rooting for the downtrodden, always

longing for relief. There’s a reckoning with the past, and a seeking of peace with

the present. Keenly aware of mortality, there’s an alliance with the self, and a

complicated desire to live fully. With openness to both experimentation and

traditional song writing, their music exists on a plane where serendipity fits

tightly with forced intention.

Their debut LP, Where Are We Going and When Will We Get There?, pulls off a

casual pop intimacy, steeped in nostalgia, with a freshness ironically achieved

through maturity. Matthew, Bret and Bonnie made this album rather slowly, as a

labor of love, with markedly enhanced production over their 2024 self-titled EP.

Intricate structures underlay ethereal vocals, uplifting harmonies that swirl from

song to song, capturing a playful tension in each. The group appears to have an

obsessive need for both dissonance and perfect euphony. There’s an

earnestness to their songs, coming from people not dealing in pretense,

perhaps finally free from needing to seem cool. Whatever darkness detected

within gets overridden by genuine love and hope.

For fans of Blonde Redhead, Broadcast, Deerhoof, Liars, Low, Portishead and

the like.