Artists: Caribou
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: October 6, 2007
The supposedly time-traveling Caribou will certainly have noticed one thing on their trip through the past playing in the present: the wonders of numbers. While frontman Dan Snaith, with his Ph. D. in Mathematics from London’s Imperial College has undoubtedly ceased to care about such mundane things as numbers when the infinite varieties of vector bundles are so much more fascinating, he must admit that Pitchfork’s 8.3 review and a corresponding overall metascore of 83 have pulled in a much larger crowd than their last stint opening for Super Furry Animals.
Prepared for the volume this time, I spent the concert adjusting my earplugs continuously, to find the right balance between being carried away by the furious drum solos of the dual drummers on stage with the hope of still being able to hear sounds under 50 dB in the not-so-distance future. While there was no shortage of sonic assaults of pretty melodies or trippy visuals, the overall effect was somehow not as devastating as last time. Still, I’m happy for Snaith and co.: they’ve earned this crowd.
Leave a Reply