Playing two California dates on consecutive nights means the band gets two crowds who think they have the same relationship with the records and do not. The LA room skews slightly older and considerably more self-conscious; the songs survive both. What they are is unusually well-built guitar music disguised as something scrappier, hooks that reveal themselves on the fourth listen rather than the first, and lyrics that avoid the self-pity the genre is accused of by being specific instead. An early Sunday start, which the audience will quietly appreciate more than they admit. Go if you have been meaning to and kept not going; this is the one where you stop meaning to. The support slots are worth arriving for and almost nobody does, which is the standing tragedy of a 6:30 door time on a Sunday.
Playing two California dates on consecutive nights means the band gets two crowds who think they have the same relationship with the records and do not. The LA room skews slightly older and considerably more self-conscious; the songs survive both. What they are is unusually well-built guitar music disguised as something scrappier, hooks that reveal themselves on the fourth listen rather than the first, and lyrics that avoid the self-pity the genre is accused of by being specific instead. An early Sunday start, which the audience will quietly appreciate more than they admit. Go if you have been meaning to and kept not going; this is the one where you stop meaning to. The support slots are worth arriving for and almost nobody does, which is the standing tragedy of a 6:30 door time on a Sunday.
Playing two California dates on consecutive nights means the band gets two crowds who think they have the same relationship with the records and do not. The LA room skews slightly older and considerably more self-conscious; the songs survive both. What they are is unusually well-built guitar music disguised as something scrappier, hooks that reveal themselves on the fourth listen rather than the first, and lyrics that avoid the self-pity the genre is accused of by being specific instead. An early Sunday start, which the audience will quietly appreciate more than they admit. Go if you have been meaning to and kept not going; this is the one where you stop meaning to. The support slots are worth arriving for and almost nobody does, which is the standing tragedy of a 6:30 door time on a Sunday.