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Aa + xbxrx + Lightning Bolt at Studio B
» Aa are not the first band I'd imagine on a Euro trashtastic stage setup with primo sound equipment (replete with anal retentive sound man, drummer Nadav informed me next night at Silent Barn). They're sort of the floor-bound type, like their album photos depict, thrashing about with their crazy music, surrounded by a halo of crazy people who see eye to eye, literally, and thrash alongside. That being said, it seemed little was lost in the translation onto a raised performance space strafed with Easter candy colored strobe lights. Delayed-til-Doomsday vocals? Check. Acid-soaked dance hall marching band beats? Check. Broken-beat geek dancing? Check!
Text by Jeremy Krinsley
Posted on April 28, 2007
Aa
xbxrx were loud.
The first row of spectators for the dance-floor situated Lightning Bolt (how came they got to stay on the floor?) was actually a security ring of door people and larger entities. It was completely impossible to get past it, but it was an understandable precaution, given the massive pressure to swarm the band tends to generate. They were the sort of loud that follow you into the next morning. Too bad there is no ear hangover remedy (put ear to more stacked Marshall amps?). I'm usually distracted heavily by Lightning Bolt's drummer, whose "machine gun" style of playing makes it pretty impossible for the basic head nodding motions that usually lead to dancing. I seemed to be in the minority on this matter, because people were all over it.
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Good review, but why leave out High Places who played right before Aa? Did you miss them? They were amazing and possibly the most original band I have seen in a long time. I seriously think this band will be the next Animal Collective, at least in regards to opening a ton of peoples minds and being successful. And I think that at such a Bro'ed out show, they are unbelievably brave for playing that show as well as the previous LB show at 3rd Ward. I'm so glad that they played and rounded out a very ecclectic bill. I just wanted to let people know about something worth mentioning.
— Jana on May 18, 2007