Rapid fire May is loco yo gig reviews 1: Yeasayer - Whelan's

Wow Yeasayer are shockingly popular in Dublin. Well, I'm not shocked that they're popular because despite what I'm about to write I do think All Hour Cymbals is a good album but considering it's a Tuesday night, during one of the most insane run of gigs to ever hit Dublin and that there are 3 other bands that I've have been delighted to see play in town tonight the fact that they pulled as many people into Whelans as they did (however many it is to mean that it's so uncomfortably crowded that they had to open the upstairs, that many).

And they're a great band, that is to say, they're great musicians. I don't think I've ever seen a band so effortlessly tight in a long while. If there was a bum note played I didn't catch it. And yet, the whole thing felt a little soulless, too pristine. Aside from the sight of a punter clamboring up on the stage to try and lead a clapalong twice I could have been listening to a record.

I shoulda gone to The Hold Steady.