Last time I saw them they were a trio, but this time there were five musicians behind José Gonzalez, who was finger picking his guitar, standing in the middle of the stage. Around him, Tobias Winkerton on moog synth, Elias Araya on drums, as well as three other persons on tropical percussion, more synth and bass,
Alex Edkins on guitar and main vocals, Hayden Menzies on drums and Chris Slorach on bass came on stage and right away played ‘Dirty Shirt’, and their huge sound, eardrum-bleeding-skull-crashing-tinnitus-giving sound, never left the room during their entire set
The almost all-girl band (there was actually one guy for three girls) was playing a fast and stormy music, with guitar and bass in constant assaults, speedy drumming, and aggression all over the place
She calls her music ‘Junkyard Country’, and yes there was a little bit of everything, sometimes openly country, sometimes more folky, or bluesy, all genres connected by the same doomed Americana mood
‘some grow, some struggle’,… ‘and they are no longer able to create that vision when there is too much exposure’,… ‘Don’t strangle artists, so they can continue to create!’… It had to be about Amy Whinehouse, right?
the tropical rhythms, the steel drums, the bright African guitars, but not the Vampire Weekend way, no Lord Huron is more eerie, more abstract, more on the dreamy side, they attack the large open spaces, climb the high mountains and cross the mighty seas.
the kind of music that could make you travel through a space hole, forget about time while transporting you into another dimension. His majestic music is truly unusual, progressively building a transcendent emotion
‘Cause I don’t want to be anywhere but right here tonight’…
