Rip_City
Well-Known Member
Spellling was phenomenal. Seriously. They took the art pop style from The Turning Wheel (and a few other songs) and transformed it into a cinematic art rock epic. What an engrossing, whimsical, and wholly satisfying performance.
Sun Atoms
Portland band with a psychedelic trance/slacker rock vibe. Fairly enjoyable, but couldn't make out any of the lead vocalist's lyrics. The last song they performed had a neat five-minute jam out session, with each member leaving the stage one by one. They'll be opening for Modest Mouse here in November.
Spacemoth
Neo-psychedelia/indietronica/synthpop group that draws obvious inspiration from Broadcast. On that topic, I'm pretty sure they performed a cover of one of their songs in this set. Very solid performance overall. Lead frontwoman Maryam Qudus was also responsible for mixing a few songs on Spellling's The Turning Wheel including the whimsically brilliant "Always." Their debut album No Past No Future dropped this year.
Spellling
Oh so good. This show was everything I hoped for. Boundless energy from lead lady Chrystia Cabral and excellent individual musician performances, especially from the lead guitarist on a handful of the selections. The backup singers were also wonderful in providing stage theatrics depth and vocal layering.
They kicked off with the dark, moody, yet groovy "Under the Sun" from the unjustly under the radar Mazy Fly. From there on, most of the set was taken from last year's extravagant The Turning Wheel. They played all of my favorites, to my delight. "Boys at School" was wholly stellar, with everyone in the audience belting the chorus.
The encore was just as extravagant, with everyone singing along to the luxurious "Little Deer" and "Emperor With an Egg." Set went for a healthy ~75min altogether, ending ~10min past midnight.
The excellent "Turning Wheel" here, one of the standout performances from Friday's set:
Why not some more? Video of "Always," my favorite song from The Turning Wheel:
I must add that the videos taken above don't even showcase the epic levels the later songs in the set achieved instrumentally. Might have to consider this for a top10 show this year. Phenomenal.
EDIT: grammar and some description changes
Sun Atoms
Portland band with a psychedelic trance/slacker rock vibe. Fairly enjoyable, but couldn't make out any of the lead vocalist's lyrics. The last song they performed had a neat five-minute jam out session, with each member leaving the stage one by one. They'll be opening for Modest Mouse here in November.
Spacemoth
Neo-psychedelia/indietronica/synthpop group that draws obvious inspiration from Broadcast. On that topic, I'm pretty sure they performed a cover of one of their songs in this set. Very solid performance overall. Lead frontwoman Maryam Qudus was also responsible for mixing a few songs on Spellling's The Turning Wheel including the whimsically brilliant "Always." Their debut album No Past No Future dropped this year.
Spellling
Oh so good. This show was everything I hoped for. Boundless energy from lead lady Chrystia Cabral and excellent individual musician performances, especially from the lead guitarist on a handful of the selections. The backup singers were also wonderful in providing stage theatrics depth and vocal layering.
They kicked off with the dark, moody, yet groovy "Under the Sun" from the unjustly under the radar Mazy Fly. From there on, most of the set was taken from last year's extravagant The Turning Wheel. They played all of my favorites, to my delight. "Boys at School" was wholly stellar, with everyone in the audience belting the chorus.
The encore was just as extravagant, with everyone singing along to the luxurious "Little Deer" and "Emperor With an Egg." Set went for a healthy ~75min altogether, ending ~10min past midnight.
The excellent "Turning Wheel" here, one of the standout performances from Friday's set:
Why not some more? Video of "Always," my favorite song from The Turning Wheel:
I must add that the videos taken above don't even showcase the epic levels the later songs in the set achieved instrumentally. Might have to consider this for a top10 show this year. Phenomenal.
EDIT: grammar and some description changes
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