I stumbled on a listing for This Will Destroy You a couple of weeks ago. Hadn’t heard of them in the twenty years they’ve been around but they seemed right up my alley. Post rock? Atmospheric guitar soundscapes? Sign me up.
Having listened to just three songs from their self-titled album, which they’d be playing in full, I knew this was extremely my jam and bought a ticket.
Fantastic show! I’d listened to the album they played a bunch of times but with this kind of band it’s hard to tell one song from another. Usually that’s a criticism, but if you just want to be buried in beautiful guitars and synthesisers it absolutely is not. I was swept away from start to end.
One down-but-up-side of the evening was me messing up my camera settings so it ended up leaving the lens open for sometimes ten seconds — not a good thing unless you’re taking a picture of a very still piece of fruit using a tripod in a room with all the windows and doors closed. Most of my pics were just a blur of light, but a couple kinda picked up the vibe of the music better than if they’d been sharp and in focus.