GoMA - Fri Jan 18

As the latest artist to perform at Andy Warhol Up Late series, Dan Snaith, otherwise known as Caribou, cranks out layers of lush indie pop at the brighter end of the honey-gold spectrum. It’s the sort of thing, I have always told those willing to listen, that would sound incredible in a long, narrow area flanked by an LCD TV installation and cloned pink pop-art milkers. Fortunately the gig space at GoMA, currently in the eye of an Andy Warhol storm, was able to provide something fairly similar. Good times all round, then. Touring with a full band in an attempt to recreate the sounds of the dense Andorra, Snaith and co. revelled in the kaleidoscopic atmosphere, commencing the set with the compelling introduction to Sandy and moving through their set list at pace before settling for a moment on the wistful She’s The One. Bees, from the previous record, The Milk Of Human Kindness, garnered a rousing response from a crowd clearly ready to krautrock, before Melody Day evinced Caribou’s potency as a live act. Supporting the notion that two drummers are better than one – or as the Boredoms recently proved, that 77 drummers are better than one – Snaith and his supporting musicians battered their way through Andorra to the delight of a sold-out GoMA. Despite the best efforts of a misbehaving melodica to throw things off course, things built up to a squalling post-rock crescendo before they came crashing down around the crowd’s appreciative ears. I hope GoMA will continue to offer this sort of thing long after AW’s been taken down, painted over, unhooked and unplugged.

BEN WILSON

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