Ice Eater

Ice Eater takes pride in making music it considers unusual, but the five musicians who make up the post-prog-punk outfit are naturals in terms of pushing the sonic envelope.

When describing their sound, the guys go back and forth between intentional mystery and direct comparisons to underground ’80s icon Joy Division.

Ice Eater will release its first studio album, Don’t Care, on Saturday at Lola’s Saloon, as part of the monthly Good Show Live Music Series.

Drummer Wyatt Adams can already set the scene.

“There are a lot of alternative country kids around,” he says. “They just stand there and look at us, scratching their heads like, ‘What is this?’ I enjoy that.” - Dfw.com

Ice Eater is not a very Fort Worth-ish band. The guys can party with the best of ’em, but their music sounds like it came from outer space in the future. Though it’s definitely rock, it features elements of early disco, punk, and New Wave. There are guitars, but they’re used nontraditionally — co-songwriter Zachary Edwards doesn’t just stand there and rock barre chords soaked in reverb. Rather, he uses his instrument to add texture, mostly in a mechanical way: creating grinding noises, plucking out bright, flickering melodies, or elongating small batches of notes into humming riffs. In fact, Ice Eater is a seriously mechanical-sounding band, due additionally to the stickwork of drummer and co-songwriter Wyatt Adams, who comes up with some inventive beats that in their drastic minimalism seem programmed. Ice Eater, though, produces every note organically, and the samples or loops that pop up here and there are original, non-computerized creations. “It’s all hardware, no software,” said keyboardist Jordan Kline. “There’s no computer, and there will never be a computer.” - Fort Worth Weekly