Review: Bright Eyes/The Faint-Webster Hall NYC

a rainy Sunday evening begin very slow with with much exhaustion from a hectic day of chasing flying kittens all over my apt. complex. All of this exhaustion seemed to compound itself through the day, and the night out was slowly looking to be more of a hassle than a night of great music. not to mention it was raining.

so, we decided to spend some time with a friend in the city prior, and thank god we did. 2 hours of pre show food, beers, etc. hit the spot and around 8:00 we made out way outside to catch a cab to the show. To our surprise the rain had stopped, and we walked the 23 blocks. beers were the name of the game so we continued our pace and by the time The Faint appeared, we were well on our way. All I can really say is thank god for The Faint.

What a show. Stealing it was The Faint, thrashing out bass drenched tracks off of "wet from Birth" and "Danse Macabre". Making the night special was that it was bassist and death metal riff genius, dapose, birthday. The combination of his guitar pounding, and pouncing around the stage, almost stood up to the head pounding mic work of T. Fink. The crowd was moving quickly but not out of control, and the whole hour and a half of songs was hard to keep my eyes off of, and my head bobbing to.

I am not going to waste my time writing about Bright Eyes. Connor came out, sang "Time Code", got up on the drum stage and said, "we are not going to play any of that folk shit tonight, so if you want that, get the fuck out" We listened to 2 or 3 more tracks that were nothing much more than Oberst kneeling on the floor, and synthized and disorgranized noises circling the hall, and then we obliged him by walking out and stumbling home.