120 days and Shout Out Out Out at Southpaw
120 Days and Shout Out Out Out Out played Southpaw in Park Slope on Friday night.
120 Days were exhausting, but I never thought I'd enjoy an hour of Pink Floyd's "Run Like Hell" so much. I don't remember them stopping for their entire set, or at least I don't remember the music stopping, and it probably didn't because the 200 layers of delay and echo would keep whatever sound had last left the army of analog synths ringing for a good five minutes. Frontman Ådne Meisfjord was on some serious rock'n'roll shit, tremendously drunk, staring off into the crowd looking bewildered at all the people. By the end of the set dude had his shirt off and was unleashing primal screams. He also made some of the gnarliest facial expressions this side of Dana Carvey.
It would be damning Shout Out Out Out Out with faint praise to call them a knock-off !!!, but there's no shame in being compared to the finest indie dance band working. Shout are a little more electro; drum machines reign on their awesome Not Sayin/Just Sayin album, so I was surprised to see them rock with a pair of drummers. Also surprised to see SHOUT in big freakin KISS-style letters on stage. They pretty much tore it down and it's a shame so few people stuck around to see them. Those who did got to see Mikhail Bakunin on keys. Just kidding.
More pix after the jump, the rest of my pix are here.
Comments
yo, SOx4 didn't use much drum machinery on the album. the drummers you saw (gravy and snarf) are core members of the band. the two of them are just incredibly tight which, on the cd, made them sound like a drum machine. yeah, they're that good.
Posted by: lulu | March 23, 2007 04:34 AM