Black Angels Transform The Bowery Ballroom Into Vietnam
Hi, were Spindrift, and were from the United States, claims Kirpatrick Thomas as his 7-piece band takes the stage in front of a modest crowd. Its too bad there werent more people there to see Spindrift dominate the stage with a terrific mix of Ennio Morricone spaghetti-western drifting, Angelo Badalamentis dark, creepy compositions and a handful of LSD. The feeling created was one of a drifter, set out to meet his fate at a high noon shootout.
That drifter met his doom when A Place To Bury Strangers took the stage. With everything cranked up, the trio created an explosion of sound, equivalent to the violently loud sounds of an epic war, Each minute seemed to build up to the next, until the strobes were set off, acting as shrapnel in the battlefield that Bowery Ballroom had become. Minds were being blown, and there would be no survivors.
When the explosions of A Place to Bury Strangers had settled, Black Angels took us on a journey through the aftermath of a horrible war, with songs that could easily act as the soundtrack to the Vietnam War. The imagery spoken of was not for the weak.
Black Angels were again able to come to NYC and make every minute of their set feel like a first hand experience of Vietnam, through their reverb-heavy, pitch-black psychedelia. Both Black Angels and A Place to Bury Strangers added to their performance with a backdrop of strange video projections.
Photos courtesy of [Jonny-Leather]