Friday night at the self-proclaimed "art and alcohol" gallery of (le) poisson rouge, Maria Neckam, aka the Brooklyn bred and jazz trained Milán infiltrated the far too sparsely populated space like fluorescent spheres of a bubble gun for her self-titled EP release party. Created in junction with DJ Brian Lindgren (Pax Humana), drummer Chris Berry (Holy Ghost!, Ghost Beach) and drummer Tommy Crane (Half Waif) the 11/11 release merges of the mind of Maria filtered through the creative production skills of Jim Orso (drums for Hot Chip, Holy Ghost! and Rush Midnight).

In a "let's do this" moment her thin heels and leopard-print blazer were removed and Milán was unconstricted to align movement with alt-electro beats. Her finely tuned style and quirky dance moves evoke the endearing appeal of Björk, and fans of the Annie Clark-personified pop of St. Vincent will be looking to snag the self-titled EP.

With an almost unaware intensity, she let the focused crowd intimately in with the seductively vulnerability of "How could I ever let you come so close, to my heart?" in "Miles Apart." In a thrashing "DK6" that leaves you curious and craving what's next, "Nobody asked you to move in here, nobody asked you to be become me...can't you see that you hold me back?" jabs Milán. The energy slowed down for the steady rhythms accelerated by the driving eclectic vocals of the haunting yet soft "25." "When the world gets too close I can't feel myself..."

Like the teeming undercurrents of the up and coming next Brooklyn neighborhood, Milán has mainstream appeal for the next era 2015 of kink-tones. Photos by Cody Orrell

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