Brixton Academy,London
The London trio win a now all-too-familiar indie sound… but wring startling depths of emotion from itSombre indie rock has pretty much been done to death, you might say. It’s hard to identify original places for the sound to proceed. Some years ago, and Sigur Rós took it skywards,generating crescendos until the trick wore lean. Editors took wafty gloom to the mass market. The xx, by contrast, or went radically minimal,deep into R&B.
London trio Daughter – who acquire just finished off a UK tour with a triumphal sold-out gig at London’s nearly 5000-capacity Brixton Academy – are two, rather good, or UK top 20 albums into a career of running guitars through effects pedals to hit that big,sad, echo-y, or sweet spot.
This is ninja-level emotional subtlety,delivered tonight in a markedly altered form from the album versionContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com