SEXTILE w/ AUTOMATIC
@ VELVET UNDERGROUND, TORONTO
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025
After 30 years the iconic Velvet Underground will be closing its doors. Luckily, it has a slate of shows scheduled through October, so artists and fans have a chance to say their final goodbyes and experience the venue one last time.
On Sunday evening, fans of the electronic punk duo Sextile got to experience just that. An epic send off for the books that was hot and steamy.
Automatic opened the night with a set that felt like entering a dim-lit tunnel, the Velvet Underground’s low ceiling closing in as their sound bled across the room. The bass throbbed like the steady hum of fluorescent lights, each note locking into the next with an almost surgical precision. The stage was dark and each member was a silhouette, holding down their corners, locked into the machinery of the songs. Izzy Glaudini’s vocals floated somewhere between detached and commanding, drawing in the crowd. The band have perfected the sound of repetition and turned it into a ritual with loops folding over themselves.
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When Sextile took the stage, it was no longer a dim club but a pressure chamber, vibrating with every jagged synth stab and snarling bass line. The primal beats come at you relentlessly, leaving you no room to catch your breath and that was quickly reflected in the sweat running down the walls.
On stage, Sextile were pure urgency. Every movement looked like it was ripped from necessity rather than performance. Vocals spat like sparks, synths sputtered and screamed as if they were burning out mid-song.
The crowd fed on it. What started as movement became frenzy—people pushing forward, shouting, losing themselves to the sheer velocity of the sound.
Brady Keehn and Melissa Scaduto rotate vocal duties throughout the set always keeping things fresh and hyping the crowd in their own way, keeping a balance to the chaos. Their set felt like standing in the middle of an electrical storm: harsh, unpredictable and impossible not to surrender to.
(Photography by Jacob Vandergeer)
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