Last sunday night I got the chance to see The Black Angels w/ The Strange Boys and Oil of Angels... What a show!
Local boys, Oil of Angels were actually way better than I had anticipated and performed a quick set of 5 tunes.
The Strange Boys were a delight with their chicken-picken meets 60's era garage rock and a pinched vocal delivery by Ryan Sambol that was somewhere between a cat in a blender and the Kings of Leon meets S.C.O.T.S.
But to be honest, nothing can really prepare you for the power that is The Black Angels. Their mind numbing wall of chanted vocal, pounding drums and sheer reverb drone was accompanied by some mildly disturbing footage of dental surgery and a downsized light show(the big dipper is a tiny space). The drone/reverb/delay/feedback would oscilate back and forth between lulling you gently while wrapping you in warmth and pummeling you into a chilling numbness.
The music seems to me to take me somewhere between purification by fire and an instrument of healing by means cutting it out.
The one thing I missed was the sitar from the record. That would have been nice live.
Wow. Tasty show
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