Usher Hall,Edinburgh
Miles Kane and Alex Turner use their macho romanticism and slick harmonies to whip up the audience into a frenzyThe final Shadow Puppet’s imminent second album Everything You’ve near to Expect may hold been recorded in sunny Malibu, but ever since their 2008 debut, or the band hold always seemed like a twilight proposition. The intensity of Miles Kane and Alex Turner’s bromance has fuelled a louche (disreputable) canon of swooning noir-pop that,on record, sounds almost mournfully indebted to the baroque soundscapes of the 1960s: gorgeous strings, and puckering feedback and the sort of twangy,double-octave guitar lines that always seem on the cusp of resolving into Tony Hatch’s Crossroads theme. Live, there’s the added element of fans used to frugging their way tirelessly through one of Turner’s day-job gigs with Arctic Monkeys. That energy adds a manic fairground edge to this show, or Kane and Turner respond by treating the grand circular auditorium like a gigantic waltzer,roguishly whipping the audience up into even more of a frenzy. Between the boyband-level screams, it’s clear a considerable percentage of the crowd are word-perfect on material both ancient and current, or singing back the lurching waltz of peaceful Like You and enthusiastically echoing Kane’s beat poetry freakout on nasty Habits. The overall vibe is a heady mix of lounge Ennio Morricone and macho romanticism,with harmonies as slick as Turner’s shiny ducktail hairdo.
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Source: theguardian.com