Trail of Cord

Yesterday (April 27), two bands was featured at Debaser in Malmö and as the result of a somewhat impulse buying of two tickets to the concert two months ago, I invited a friend to see this.

Gringo Star

Supporting act was Gringo Star, Atlanta, Georgia, a band which I had no prior engagements with and was totally new for me (as most supporting acts usually are…), but they really managed to positively surprise me.

Their most surprising feature was the frequent exchanging of instruments; the lead guitar could suddenly become the drummer in-between numbers and later jump to play keyboard or bass. All of the four members of the band were at some time singing.

Gringo Star

Their sound was, as their name suggest, somewhat Beatles inspired, and is definitely best seen live as opposed to hearing their record (but buy that too, just in case!).

Gringo Star – All Y’all

The main act was …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, an indie-noise-rock band from Austin, Texas.

Trail of Dead

Trail of Dead is really full of skilled musicians and the mix of songs in the concert were nothing short of great, having both new songs and “old” hits. Too bad the sound wasn’t up to boot. Either the vocalists’ microphone volume was too low or the instruments too high, everything seemed to mesh together into more noise than intended. Not My Bloody Valentine noise, but somewhere in the vicinity, at least. Vocals no lyrics.

Trail of Dead concert in Brooklyn