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[SteveCrisis]

I got recommended these guys prior to travelling down to Glasgow for the (cancelled) Explosions In The Sky gig. What can I say?

Just disappointed I wasn't able to see them in Glasgow last week. Grrr!

[stuartmaxwell]

new album sucks the big one, but i love most of the other stuff

[SteveCrisis]

Originally Posted by stuartmaxwell

new album sucks the big one, but i love most of the other stuff

I only have the The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw album and the March Into the Sea EP.

Can't get enough of both. Amazon here I come...

[Lester Burnham]

They were great last week (with added "Hot Sweaty Bassist" fun for me and the other two girls in the entire audience).

I'll be honest, I'm not hugely familiar with a lot of their stuff - although I loved what I'd already heard - but figured I'd go and see them as I was going to down for Explosions anyways (boo hiss) and they were far better than I expected. The sound was great and they played a lovely lush encore. After seeing them live they are definately a band I'll make a greater effort to get into.

Edit:

'These arms are snakes' were also quite entertaining, the singer kept swinging his mic around - much to our amusement, we heckled away with glee- and I can only assume he was on something as he seemed to be pretending to be a snake towards the end of the set. The band was a decent support though. I quite enjoyed them.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by stuartmaxwell

new album sucks the big one, but i love most of the other stuff

It does rather. I was quite disappointed by it.

[Teabags]

Originally Posted by SteveCrisis

I only have the The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw album and the March Into the Sea EP.

Can't get enough of both. Amazon here I come...

Get the self-titled EP and Austalasia, fuckign amazing. Especially Drought off of Australasia.

However, the song itself March Into The Sea is piece of beauty, seen best on copious amounts of mushrooms.

[Floor Tom]

The gig was indeed good. They didn't play Sirius though, its the best track they have recorded

[blairsea]

I agree with Maxi that the new album is pretty sh*te but I must say that the new songs they played lived were really good - particularly Bliss In Concrete and the most "metal" one that I forget the name of.

Great that they played one of my fave songs from Australasia and finished with Red Ran Amber (never heard it on their FIOTWBTT tour with Cave-in when in living in Germany).

They came back for the encore and played the mighty mammoth and, although it was the "major" version (I prefer the original), it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Truly awesome.

The sound was superb for Pelican but was pretty ropey for These Arms Are Snakes. I got more in to them as their set went on but was I the only one thinking how incredible and amateurish it was for the guitarist to have to leave the stage for 10mins and change a string???? The bassist, singer and drummer could have jammed something decent at least.