VENUE O2 FORUM KENTISH TOWN, LONDON
DATE 10/02/2023
SUPPORT SOM
You have to feel sorry for SOM. When the Americans arrive to serenade the O2 Forum with their prog-inflected shoegaze, it’s 10 minutes after doors and almost nobody’s about. However, those who walk in during the set get the most crystalline of entrance music complemented by frontman Will Benoit’s drawn-out croons.
The singer and his bandmates are silhouetted against their backdrop, yet SOM still look like stars. Spotlights shine through the rising smoke and flash with every striking snare. It all cultivates a visual magnificence that not even tonight’s first headliner can emulate.
For Sólstafir, emotional devastation is all that matters. Post-rock’s saddest cowboys take the stage under a blue hue, with zero frills, and immediately let their melancholic music…
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