Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
Live @ the Barfly, London, 03/16/05
I love music. I love it so much it hurts, but at the end of last year and the beginning of this I've just been to too many rubbish gigs and bought too many boring records. I tell you, at one point I almost gave up! Lately though, things have been looking brighter with excellent records by Moneybrother, Håkan Hellström, The Evens and more, coming out, and with equally good live shows from Bright Eyes, Arcade Fire and others, my interest in music has been ignited once again. What I'm trying to get at here is that the Suburban Kids with Biblical Names gig yesterday was just another logical step in this revival. Or, that might be an understatement since the show was one of the best I've witnessed in a long time. If It's a Trap! worked under some sort of grading system this show would have gotten five Vikings out of five. Their songs are just so charming and fantastic that I couldn't help but smiling and shuffling my feet to the beat throughout the whole show. It might help that I'm an avid Jonathan Richman fan, but I'm sure SKWBN can charm anyone who's into clever indiepop. Tonight I'm going to see Arcade Fire once again, and hopefully they won't ruin this good streak that I've enjoyed lately. Thank you very much.
- Simon Tagestam