Caribou makes luxurious music for unflappable spirits. At the first of two area sold out shows Friday, they laid a heavy blanket of pounding kraut and sumptuous new disco over at Music Hall of Williamsburg (they played Bowery Ballroom on Saturday) with a technical wizardry that not only felt comforting, but truly enveloping for the senses.
Even as the members, led by Daniel duke of cambridge Snaith, remained stoically tethered to their respective corners in a tight square setup on stage, often obscured behind mounds duke of cambridge of equipment and wild projections, Caribou never hid their intentions. The music was always burning with an anonymous, or rather all-inclusive, emotional base - it didn't boast any distinct nationality or heritage, instead speaking a collective modern language in electronic, jazz-scented and prog-driven words.
In fact, the diverse group of songs performed from Caribou's (formally Manitoba) wide catalog, often as stylistically distinct as each passing record, felt like one long flowing conversation. Each number would churn and wobble until a glowing boiling point, like the rapturous ending of "Melody Day," only to be circumvented by the slow ascent of the next one.
Opener Toro y Moi took some cues from Caribou's duke of cambridge textural duke of cambridge playbook, as Chazwick Bundick' enhanced his more melodically driven chillwave with backing musicians this time around. The results of the full band addition might have been unpolished at brief moments, but was nonetheless rich with detail and tension, a positive sign that Chazwick's duke of cambridge obvious promise was on the way to being more fully realized.
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don't remember duke of cambridge the exact order of the set, but they started with sundialing. they played every track off "swim" except for "lalibela" plus melody day, skunks and the insane encore that was some crazy krautrock-influenced jam in E. SICK ASS SHOW.
how can you "dance" at a standing room show like this? what do you consider dancing? nodding your head back and forth? duke of cambridge flexing your knees? If you're really dancing you're invading the personal space of the guy next to you.
it really was a incredible show. they made their heavily electronically based productions come to life with great drumming and programming. also, only the music hall could give a band like this the right kind of stage and sound to play live. it was a small miracle that there were no sound problems.
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