Spot the ginger.

During an interview with Le Loup’s Sam Simkoff last month he underlined the difference between their live show and their buzz album, “The Throne Of The Overlong Album Title“. The album is an exercise in self-control, the performance an exercise in going fucking bananas, he said, with a mite more eloquence. Last night’s Crawdaddy show spoke differently: It was an exercise in control also, but in this instance over the audience.

Providing an utterly rapturous, rhapsodic and religiously fervent show/sermon, Sam (dead ringer for Alexis Taylor, by the way) and his six bandmates could not be but gazed a with mouths agape. Channelling an energy I imagine Godspeed! You Black Emperor also base their live shows on, they reworked all their songs, and gave us a taster of new directions to come. Decidedly more post-rockish and less banjo-centric than on record, their songs swelled where before they induced shivers. To The Stars! To The Night! particularly benefitted from a renovation, and Outside The Car At The End Of The World’s funk jam rejig revealed an unexpected result of experimentation. They even had stage banter (including a bout of calling Simkoff “ginger!” when he mentioned his auburn roots). The perfect formula for the perfect festival hit, and the perfect reason to pick up the album and learn off the lyrics now.

www.myspace.com/leloupmusic
www.leloupmusic.com

Daniel Gray From the moment he put the first Steps album into his stereo he knew he'd found his calling.
Email this author | All posts by Dan

Similar Posts