The epileptically strobe-highlighted noise swells and frontman Oliver Ackerman's elementally shambling guitar-smashing finale remain same (and impressive) as ever, but Monday at the Williamsburg Hall of Music, he actually went through two guitars. Just when the performance would normally be crawling to a close, one guitar lying forlorn, discarded in a slurry of chords and homemade disto pedals, Ackerman leapt offstage and returned with a second instrument, allowing the song, and wanton (though presumably feigned) destructive to continue for several more minutes.
The band was also playing several new songs this time around, b-sides from the trio of new 7"s the band is selling on the current tour, each pairing an album track with a new b-side. I gravitated towards the one featuring the oft-overlooked "Breath" and new opener "Runaround" (available on their Myspace) and was in no way disappointed.
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