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\"Crows\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As the last days of 2019 approach, one can\u2019t help but take stock of the past year and the records that stood out. The album with which I\u2019ve spent more time than any other the past 10 months has clearly been Silver Tongues<\/i>, the debut album by London\u2019s Crows (pictured above). Equally tumultuous and atmospheric, the shapeshifting record delivers a visceral punch while at the same time conjuring a lysergic thrill reminiscent of Spacemen 3.<\/p>\n

The band has spent much of October on tour with the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets (pictured below), and this past Tuesday, they were at home playing to a near-capacity crowd at Camden\u2019s Electric Ballroom. Coming on after Bitch Diesel but before the headlining Aussies, Crows didn\u2019t waste any of their limited time slot. After the band warmed its collective motor with the slow-build cacophony of the record\u2019s title track, singer James Cox shed his sweatshirt before leaping into the crowd as his bandmates launched into \u201cDemeanor,\u201d also from Silver Tongues<\/i>. Singing among a throng of colliding bodies, he made sure that anyone still thinking this would be an ordinary opening set was quickly made aware otherwise.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the last time Cox would end up in the audience, but the set\u2019s high point, \u201cWednesday\u2019s Child,\u201d was delivered from the stage. Also the record\u2019s penultimate track, live the song was even more riveting, with Cox commanding, \u201cBlame me for all of your mistakes,\u201d with certain fierceness. That ferocity was tempered on \u201cEmpyrean,\u201d where Cox and company imbued their maelstrom with a degree of moodiness. Similarly, they ended their set with the reverberating notes of \u201cChain of Being,\u201d choosing to fade away instead of going out with a bang.<\/p>\n

\"Psychedelic<\/a><\/p>\n

Regardless, their set ended as quickly as it began to make way for the headliners who evidently most of the crowd was there to see. With the median age of the audience skewing quite young, PPC must seem novel to their fans, who\u2019ve likely not spent much time with any Deep Purple albums or others of that ilk. As I have, it took a few songs before I eventually warmed to the Perth-based band\u2019s mix of well-tread psych-rock tropes and its accompanying trippy light show. Playing mostly cuts from their third and latest album, And Now for the Whatchamacallit<\/i>, the Porn Crumpets managed to insert just enough hints of pop and melody to keep their set from chooglin\u2019 monotonously. That said, another 20 minutes of Crows would have been much preferred by this minority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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