Battles, Deerhunter played South Street Seaport
The last of the free summer shows at South Street Seaport was a celebration with an eager mass of Battles and Deerhunter fans. Though I missed much of the latter, who opened, much love was shown towards both bands, with traversing through the crowd a task as daunting as it had been when Animal Collective played the first of these shows. Battles, with their drummer up front (and why not, he was their gem), performed much like architects. This impression may have been influenced by their clean-cut appearances (not too mention all the colors - yellow drum set, pink and green shirts, a red-bodied keyboard - and the unusual layout on the stage itself). The performance itself seemed equally clean-cut, though the structurally sound foundations were padded by a feeling of loose explorations.
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