Thursday, June 18, 2009

Concert Review: Viva Voce @ Echo


Cut Off Your Hands opened, a New Zealand band of young dudes, blasted some London Wasteland sounds - that dark, lonely side the Cure does so well.

Viva Voce came on with a distortion heavy version of Devotion, a rolling fracas of drums and surprising hard guitars. This was the first half of the show, along with me squirting limes into my three dollar Tecate's, that left me sort of bored.

It was well written enough, something like, "woke up to the sound of stars crashing to the ground like the sound of guitars." That's the vigorous language that opened up the second half of the show into the more interesting, layered band from Rose City (their new album, out now).

"A slow fade in a song / like a shade that's getting drawn"

Is the potent way they sing about their crashed relationships. Very beautiful and complicated. It was a powerful, and strangely unattended show, of a band that will keep up their reptuation by playing solid rock shows.

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