A Good Show For The Dancing
My mother phones me from Northern Canada while Brooklyn, New York's Mobius Band plays the opening slot for Toronto's Tokyo Police Club at the Scala in London. Yeesh, now that's some geography, but it seems apt somehow for a band whose sound is this ... middling. It doesn't suck, mind, it just fits too well with everything else that's going on mainscene-wise.
They are slightly danceable and highly listenable, but I wasn't charmed by this three-piece. They indie, they electro and they music, but they don't separate themselves from anything else. I should like them but I don't.
In fact, the only things I really liked about them were the non-musical aspects of their performance: all three of them, Pete Sax, Noam Schatz and Ben Sterling, do funny dances while they play. Unintentional funny dances. Closed eyes head sways and orgasm faces while Ben Sterling plays his guitar and Noam Schatz does funny spins on his drum-stool while jamming on his insanely tweaked out flea market keyboards. All of this is wonderful, but I wouldn't pay money for it. I'd maybe pay canned food for it at best.
Anyways, I don't know why I disliked them. They were insanely polite, too, explaining that they'd been on tour since October and tonight was their last gig "for a while" - but still I didn't like them that much. If they did funny faces and dances AND played harded, possibly naked, then the intricacy of Schatz's keyboard mechanical wizardry would maybe matter to me.