Do You Like British Sea Power?
That's a resounding ...
...YES.
Amid band upon band of yanks who don't know a good rock performance from a beard trimmer, Brighton, England, band British Sea Power, shooting sparks behind its latest, Do You Like Rock Music, delivered the guitar-oriented goods Saturday night at 1 a.m.
Don't get me wrong -- they are a bit strange and litrary, these lads. Collectively short and shrimpy and wearing outfits that looked like the undergarments of actors in a World War I-themed production of Hamlet, the quartet (plus violinist lady in red dress) hadn't come to Austin to rendereth the bro-jams. They sing about hiding in trees, talking to insects, glaciers and finding God in a parking lot. But they do nonetheless rock. The band has refined its sound into a muscular, noisy, epic kind of rock that brings together the brash experimentalism of the first album, The Decline of British Sea Power (2003), with the poppier and more tuneful (but less memorable) second LP, Open Season (2005). Then again, BSP has always strived for a hopeful, rushing-tide sound, and each record has contained its share of classic tracks. This year's anthem: "Waving Flags."
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