Mona, Thurs 14 Mar 2013, Cedar St Courtyard SXSW 2013

A really passionate performance delivered to a small but select audience of music fans and the odd Rolling Stone writer.

They had a really strong opening with Listen to Your Love and then Teenager. The fact that they didn't hold these back obviously reflected their confidence in the new material they rolled out through the show. These songs seemed a step forward from the material on their first album. A keyboard was brought out mid-way through the last song, which was a mini-epic and really great. But it wasn't just added instruments that marked the new material out. It also rocker harder in places with more stripped back instrumentation. The new songs sounded like a band that had really found their own voice, and the audience lapped them up.

The band were really personable and thanked the audience for coming out to see them when there was so much else on. It was a really great set, structured to bring out the drama of the songs. And they rocked!

Other SXSW reviews from Broken Biscuit Records:
My Jerusalem, Maggie Mae's
Dawes, Stages on Sixth
Tom Odell, Haven
Lord Huron, Mohawk
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Stages on Sixth
Jake Bugg, Radio Day Stage