At L’Alliance New York, *Strawberries, Snails and Slugs* arrives as a rock/pop set framed by artists more often associated with sound design and animation than with the standard club circuit. Featured performers include Sidi Kaba, Nicolas Becker, Momoko Seto, Sylwia Szkiłądź, and Raoul Servais, bringing a cross-disciplinary sensibility to live music in Manhattan. In a city where genre boundaries are routinely tested, the evening reads as a small case study in how contemporary performance folds filmic attention to texture into pop form. The result favors atmosphere and detail over hook-chasing.