Atp's I'll Be Your Mirror Day 2
This was my first journey to Asbury Park, which turns out is much
further from New York than I anticipated. But the beautiful beach
and fascinating gothic / futuristic architecture on the outside of
the venue softened me up nicely. It had a softer look, with sullen
colors, and the abandoned theater space almost felt like a classier
version of webster hall, as if this is where people end up going to
shows after their drugged out webster days still linger in their
rearview mirror |
| 1 |  | Colin Stetson
New History Warfare, Vol 2: Judges
(oops, I was pretty upset I missed this) |
| 2 | | BEAK
BEAK>
Caught the very tail end of this and it didn't seem like anything special. Still
would've liked to have seen more of what Geoff Barrow et all could've done
with a full set |
| 3 |  | Marc Ribot
Silent Movies
(billed as marc ribot's ceramic dog). Jammy then chilling. The paramount
room was the perfect spot for this jazzy almost jimi hendrixy jam band. |
| 4 |  | Foot Village
Friendship Nation
Imagine an intense amount of drumming thrown on top of gui boratto's
paradise circus. Wild images, distorted and screamed at me veiled in dark
blue and purple. Made me kinda feel like I was fucking some 42 year old
nymphomaniac. It was as if the disgusting bastard child of something
metalcore after mating with panda bear. Some of the most fascinating stuff
heard all day, but I could only handle so much of it's weirdness |
| 5 |  | Silver Apples
Decatur
(a very special collaboration between Simeon of Silver Apples and Hans-
Joachim Roedelius of Cluster/Harmonia under the name "Silver Qluster").
After some eerie background music, silver qluster just gnawed at my brain,
pulsing through the rest of my body. Like with foot village, I was really
unsure of whether I was actually enjoying all the bizarre shit going on here,
but either way, I definitely admired all the avant-garde musicianship on
display in both cases. |
| 6 |  | The Horrors
Skying
Felt for a while like I was trapped in a Richard Linklater Film. And that film
changed from 'waking life' to 'suburbia' halfway through the first song. Only
was really into the beginning of the set but it did start pretty interestingly. |
| 7 |  | Battles
Gloss Drop
Reminded me a bit of Portishead's 'Third' (good) and Muse's 'The
Resistance' (not good). I can appreciate only so much of Battles so I wasn't
too into it |
| 8 |  | Swans
Soundtracks For the Blind
Paramount room didn't really serve these guys well, considering they
wanted a standing energized crowd. A lot like Silver Qluster in their
strange powerful eeriness. Will have to evaluate Swans in a different
context at some point in the future |
| 9 |  | ultramagnetic mcs
critical beatdown
The whole time I was just thinking, if I had come on Sunday, this would've
been Public Enemy. Kool Keith et al weren't bad per se, but they never
really established any kind of lengthy rhythm or rapport with the audience |
| 10 |  | Portishead
Third
If I was doubting the overall quality of setlists up until this point, Portishead
made up for it all. It's amazing the kind of craze Portishead's gotten
despite being so mellow and odd. Beth Gibbons crowd surfed and shook a
number of people's hands (including yours truly), to bring to life a lot of
their most popular tracks off of Dummy ('mysterons', 'sour times',
'wandering star', 'glory box', 'roads') and some of their more recent hits. |
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