Ignatius Feb 23, 2019

The New Trust wasn't too memorable for me. Just kind of your run of the mill bass-driven indie rock band. Worthy openers though, nice clean rhythms and tempo changes. Oh and the songs were a bit short, like hardly ever more than 3 minutes. Not sure how I like that; it avoided being over-indulgent, but some of those jams I would have liked to indulge in. Anyway they seemed like nice people, one of their songs was described as being about how in indie rock you're basically drowning, but then you find can breathe underwater...

Planet of Ice, man... This was my first show where a band played straight through an album of theirs, start to finish. And Planet of Ice was the first Minus the Bear album I heard. It's just a sonic masterpiece. Great blend of synths/effects with guitars and drums, insane leads and rhythms. This show was just a dream come true. The lead guitarist was sooo good. For White Mystery he spent most the time kneeled over his pedalboard essentially sampling his guitar. Frikkin innovative. Of the non-PoI songs my favorite was Secret Country. And like halfway through the show (I think after finishing Planet of Ice) the guitarists and keyboard player all knelt down for an extended 4-pedalboard jam. It was a delicious way of setting the tone for the second act.

But what I was most looking forward to was Dr. L'Ling. Since the first time I listened to it I knew it would be one of the very few songs I absolutely needed to hear in person one day, and that moment finally came at 9:29 PM tonight, and it was the best 6 minutes and 52 seconds of my summer. God damn.