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Thursday night Blues Control killed it at Coco 66 in Brooklyn. The NY duo shifted through clouded rhythms and eroding textures, peeling away one sonic layer after another, only to reveal more beautiful ones underneath. I first saw Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse when they opened for Animal Collective back in January, but their magic didn’t spread through all of young Animalheads. This time, though, in the cosy confines of Coco 66’s backroom stage, there was no escaping it. People have drawn comparisons to luminaries  like Royal Trux and Terry Riley, and I can’t see anything wrong with that. But they’re very much their own sonic monster, too, floating through a thick aquatic world of good vibrations.