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Waxed Apple / LCD Soundsystem...
review It might seem wilfully perverse, given the hysteria surrounding them right now, to say that I’m not here at Boutique tonight for LCD Soundsystem. But it’s true. I’ve been asked to review support act Waxed Apple. Still, LCD Soundsystem are admittedly a most welcome bonus...Local lads Waxed Apple seem to have got a lot heavier since I last saw them. They just didn’t pack quite the same punch last August when they were again supporting LCD Soundsystem. They’ve evolved, seem more confident, got bassier - a bit meaner even. See what a bit of world-touring can do for you... They still fuse organic and electronic sounds, so that we might see Alex plucking at a violin, while Caleb’s tweaking his iBook and shouting into a megaphone and Nick’s tooting on a tin whistle or belting away at his drumkit. As frontman Alex says mid-set, “It’s hard to rock out on a glockenspiel" - but somehow they manage. Later I promise a rather special toy to Caleb - a sinister fisher-price megaphone with settings for ‘robot’, ‘human’ and ‘kid’. Who knows where this could lead them next... LCD Soundsystem are, of course, fantastic. Unlike August, it’s almost unbearably rammed, the moshpit a heaving mess of arms, legs and grinning faces, above which James Murphy rat-a-tat-tats on his cowbell and delivers his considered prose. ‘Yeah’ is unsurprisingly the highlight - or so I’m told - by then I’ve retreated upstairs from the heavy crowds. Still, I saw them do ‘Yeah’ last time round - yeah I was there, in 2004, at the first LCD Soundsystem show in Brighton. I’m losing my edge, but I was there...
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