No trivia last night.

But thats okay, Battles played
instead.

And Battles are, to say the least, excellent. Extremely
good. Totally freaking bad ass. Rad like helltrack.
Veritable gods of math rock.

It was a good show. I like the math rock.

The weird thing was, I don’t think I recognized
but maybe one or two non-employees at the entire
show, but it was still a good crowd. Apparently
there is a secret raleigh mathrock crowd that
only comes out for shows featuring members of
Don Caballero.

Music was mathy, intricate, complicated, multi-layered,
syncopated, spastic, polyrhythmic, and heavy. All of which I like.
Sort of somewhere between Don Cabellero and Drums&Tuba
but more intricate than either (or both combined, for
that matter).

Three guitarists, all using loopers of some sort (
two edps, one dl4, and a laptop that seemed to be running
some sort of software looper).

And the drummer setup at the front of the stage. With
his crash symbol mounted about 7 ft in the air so he
could barely reach it.

Lots of wacky spastic polyrhythmic head bobbing going on.