 While 'P' usually stands
for 'post-rock' if you're talking Glasgow bands, happily there's
more happening in the city. Yet 3 bands starting with 'P' - what
do they stand for? Well, Pentothal are a band who have evolved
from making angular and complex sounds, to more traditional songwriting
- and with their music brains what we get is a well-crafted considered
collection of tunes - at times fractured and tense, then suddenly
a melee of swirling guitars and vocal invective. |
 Pariah are perhaps the most likely
of the 3 acts on show to get lumped with that postrock tag in
that they recently produced only instrumentals - not so much
in the vein of Mogwai (a lazy comparison) but more of US soundscapers
Scenic. A surprise tonight for the cynics then - yes, they still
have an epic echoing sound more suited to a (sonic) cathedral
than the Note's basement, but, yes, there's vocals too - a fragile
falsetto, reverberating like some ungodly choir. The sound makes
you think briefly of Mercury Rev or the Flaming Lips, then you
realise that there's so much more to it. |
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