hearsay

I’ve been enjoying Band of Horses new record, Everything all the Time, quite a bit. The twangy side of rock usually doesn’t draw me in too much but these guys know how to put some good songs together. It probably doesn’t hurt that 2/5 of them were in one of my favorite underrated bands, Carissa’s Wierd. Topo and Freed were hyping up their live show after seeing them out in LA, so I decided to check them out. Last night was the third night of sold out NY shows, which saw the band playing Bowery Ballroom on Friday, crossing the Hudson to play Maxwell’s in Hoboken on Saturday, before landing in Brooklyn for the finale. I don’t know what the rest of the tour has been like, but the band seemed almost awestruck, and certainly appreciative of the tremendous reception they’ve had here. Towards the end, lead singer Ben Bridwell commented “If you would have told me two years ago that we’d be playing to this type of crowd on a Sunday night I’d have shit my pants”. The band were truly enjoying themselves up there. From the opening song, ‘Monsters’ they confidently pushed through the best songs on the record. They added in a couple of new songs that sounded great as well and one that ‘didn’t fit on the record’ that will find an EP release sometime soon. The band also threw in a cover of Hall and Oates ‘You Make My Dreams Come True’, which while in true Band of Horses fashion, was kind of plodding and definitely not my highlight of the evening. Bridwell’s singing impressed me most. He was spot on all night and the vocals were featured higher in the mix then on record which gave his words much more immediacy. They finished the night on a high note rocking through ‘The Funeral’.

: Band of Horses – The Funeral :