When the Cribs play live, they don't hold back. Seriously. The trio of brothers from the UK played with Ra Ra Riot at the Larimer Lounge last night in a show that was free for bunches of friends of the Monolith Festival. As you may remember, Ra Ra Riot played at the inaugural festival last September. (The violin and cello sounded great with the drums and guitars, although the backing vocals sounded a bit off to me.) Anyways once the Cribs got started, Mr. Jarman No. 1 started screaming into the mic and didn't let up. He started the show with a jacket on, stripped down to his white shirt, and by the end, not only was that undershirt sopping, I mean sopping, with sweat, he had lost so much weight that his skinny skinny skinny jeans actually had room to breathe in the thighs. The first three songs sounded almost the same, with the wocka wocka guitar creating a wall of noise that didn't let you hear anything. Only a different bass line and slight variations in the vocals told you it was a different song. Towards the middle, we moved to the back of the room, where actually the sound was better and it seemed the band "mellowed" out, by that I mean you could discern the melodies and lyrics to "Mirror Kissers." Just a few more U.S. dates left. 3/31 at Chop Suey in Seattle; 4/2 in Portland; 4/3 in San Fran; 4/4 in LA.
The Cribs' song "I'm a Realist" is pretty good but download this Postal Service remix.
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