Music

Vessels Gig Changes Venue

John Rogers | Thursday 4 November, 2010 12:46

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This show, as previewed in the latest Snipe, has moved from The Black Heart to The Queen Of Hoxton.

The Queen of Hoxton | 1 Curtain Road, EC2A 3LT

Vessels make post-rock interesting again. Theirs isn’t the kind of by-the-numbers band that plagues the genre; it’s altogether farther reaching. It’s an epic, swirling soundscape filled with emotional rancour. Debut long player White Fields and Open Devices found them crafting a niche somewhere between the environmental echoes of Sigur Rós and the hardcore riff attack of Oceansize. There are also elements of Battles in their twinkling riffs and shifting time signatures, but again, it’s a sound Vessels make their own by shifting the influences around. Live is the environment to truly enjoy their sound as it allows their harder edge to come to the fore and their technical mastery to become blazingly apparent.

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