Saturday, July 11, 2009

YNDI HALDA (London Union Chapel, 20/06/09)



Well, what a way to spend a Saturday afternoon! Must admit Snowbird and Paul Marshall weren’t something I‘d go out of my way to see again, but Yndi Halda must rank as one of my musical discoveries of the year. Luscious, eardrum-shattering post-rock par excellence, they’re the kind of thing Hope of the States used to excel at before they were coerced into radio-friendly pop-rock. Epic without being pretentious, voluminous without discarding subtlety and employing multi-layered chimes with breathtaking effect, they’re definitely a band I want to check out again in the near future.

(Photo: SamuelYUI (Flickr))

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