In-store: Spiral Beach

Spiral Beach

Sonic Boom Records. Friday, October 16, 2009.

With some bad transit luck (two subway delays? Really?) heading down after work, I arrived later than I was hoping, the band already well on stage in the Sonic Boom basement. Nice crowd out, skewing a bit younger as expected. I'd come around on this bunch after back to back shows at NXNE in June, but it was interesting to see that they seemed to have sharpened their attack even a bit more than I remember. Perhaps just a bit more used to their new material, the songs I saw were presented with a knife-edge sizzle, and their upbeat-gloomy dance pop — think The B-52's on a bad trip — was presented with vigourous fun. Still visually sharp, too — vocalist Airick Woodhead was looking a little blonder than previous. I was fairly impressed with the chunk of the show I saw.

Arriving late, I chose to just settle in at the back and enjoy it as a spectator, so I have no media on this one. Check out a video from the show at Now to get a flavour of it.