Fear of Clowns

August 5th: The Warlocks, The Morning After Girls and Gliss @ The 7th Street Entry

All these bands are relatively new to me. I was particularly amped to see Gliss. Loved their set, but their wall of guitar sound would have come off better had the sound man been familiar with their studio work or responded to their question from stage "Is there enough reverb out there?" (no). This was their last song, it's somewhat uncharacteristic of their sound - more rock and less drone. Check out their stand-out songs Morning Light

The power trio all sang and switched instruments frequently. I believe they covered all possible combinations except the two where Victoria would have played guitar.

The Morning After Girls were outstanding and I left the show liking them more. Awesome songwriting which came off well live.

I couldn't find my larger SD card, so only got 10 minutes and none of The Warlocks. Their show was superb given the caveat that for almost every Warlocks song I can't help but think things like, "Yeah, cool, but this is a song that [My Bloody Valentine || Jesus and Mary Chain || Spiritualized] didn't write but might have." Check out "Come Save Us," and awesome track which only dips slightly into the Spiritualized vein. Maybe I'm being too hard on them, their songs are good and I wouldn't want to be tasked with coming up with song in this genre they weren't reminiscent of the bands that defined the genre.

// posted by Erik @ 8/08/2009 01:01:00 PM
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