Recording: Fresh Snow

Artist: Fresh Snow

Song: Agnostic Font^*

Recorded at Collective Arts (Burn Down The Capital presents), November 3, 2024.

Fresh Snow - Agnostic Font

The autumn has brought a welcome cluster of shows from Tad Michalak's Burn Down The Capital promotional arm, mixing touring artists (many with a long relationship with BDtC) with local legends and emerging artists, many of them taking place in the cozy basement space at Collective Arts' taproom. (Important note: there's one last show in this burst coming up this Saturday.)

Playing their first show in over five years, Fresh Snow still pulled in the headliner-sized crowd for this night — there's obviously a lotta folks who still hold the band in fond regard. Filling the stage with gear and cranking up the amps, the set started and ended with familiar numbers ("BMX Based Tactics" and "Flat White") but moved into new territory for the whole stretch in between, as far as I could tell. If there's possibly a bit more postrock sweep and a bit less krautrock chaos that doesn't mean that band's alchemy has changed all that much. Nice to see 'em back in action, and the new material hopefully points towards this not being a one-off.

^* Thanks to Tim for passing along the title!