I had a cathartic experience at the Echo last night. After some ridiculous post-emo from Parts & Labor and thrilling Year Future post-punk, Wilderness took the stage to deliver the most dramatic, emotional performance of shoegaze (post-shoegaze?) I've heard since listening to Galaxie 500 and bemoaning the fact that I'd never get to see them live. Busting out of Baltimore on the excellent and excellently named Jagjaguwar (home also to the aforementioned Part & Labor), this comes from Wilderness's follow up to their eponymous debut, released last July. Imagine Explosions In The Sky with vocals from a bastard child of Ian Curtis and John Lydon (what ridiculously morose sex they would have had), and with said vocalist doing bizarre tai chi throughout the set. If that doesn't sound awesome to you, imagine some snobby music calculus that would make it sound awesome. Or, just download the damn mp3 and check the shit for yourself.
No comments:
Post a Comment