Into the Blue Again
The Album Leaf were really good live, I wasn't really surprised. They have their own brand of minimalist saturation that just draws you in whether you're normally into electronic music or not. They played stuff pretty much exclusively off the new album, which was a bit disappointing because I'm really more of a fan of the earlier stuff, before there were a bunch of instruments and it was more of just a guy and a guitar. This of course being the 'guy and a guitar' that existed before last year or whenever it was that all those crappy sappy poppy guy-and-a-guitar acts a la John Mayer sprang out of the woodwork. Also I liked them better before he started singing. That being said, the actual sound was articulated masterfully, and they also adopted the projection show aspect of the more recent Sigur Ros tours, and synthesized them to make a sort-of multimedia presentation that made me forget that I was standing in Lee's Palace for a bit. And I bought a track suit jacket, mostly due to the fact that I love their logo. Anyway, that's all for now.