White Lung

Excellent venue at Brighton Music Hall, and the bands had a lot of energy. Great time overall, especially for the price.

I missed White Lung on the Deep Fantasy tour, but caught them for Paradise. I love them most when they are blistering fast (Take the Mirror!) but Mish is amazing and can rock a ballad or two on Paradise. I would have loved one or two more "Sorry" tracks, but there's only so much time in a set. They stay on my must see list.

I'm a massive fan of White Lung's music on record, particularly their album Deep Fantasy, but honestly the sound was just awful. I don't know if they were just having an off night, but it was so intensely muddled that I barely felt like I could make out anything. The guitar sounded the worst, and that kind of drowned out the vocals, leaving the bass and drums to pick up the slack. This was especially frustrating since the guitar is pretty much the key part of the band's music on record, but here it was actually working against the band, not for it. I could barely make out the key riffs that sound so awesome on record, and with the wall of sound present there, it was genuinely hard to tell some of the songs apart. Again, this might have just been something that was up that particular night, but it really didn't sound good at all. Oh well, maybe next time.

Terrible sound man. Everything was loud but impossible to make out. This made White Lung's whole set sound like the same muddy song, where the only perceivable change was in the rhythm of the bass line.