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Battles, !!! & Flying Lotus celebrated Warp's 20th Anniversary @ Terminal 5 in NYC - pics

photos by Ryan Muir

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“Though the undercards threw devastating curveballs — Pivot‘s set was punchy yet serene, Flying Lotus‘s DJ set spanned everything from his earlier EPs to wobbling, quaking dubstep 12″s — it was the evening’s headliners that offered the most surprises. !!! sounded loose and fluid in their only New York date of 2009; “Must Be the Moon,” normally an insistent, beeping rave-up, became looser and more open, with looser, longer guitar leads; “Heart of Hearts,” normally clenched around tense guitar and synth riffs, was practically liquid, echoing and ringing instead. Indeed, when the band previewed a new track, “Treat Me Right,” they sounded (however remotely) like the Band, with old organ whirs girding the rhythm section’s grooves. !!! is a band that’s built its name on its rhythmic force, but even in this smoother, more limber style, the band sounded right at home. Frontman Nic Offer got to strut his stuff, and the band’s rhythm section, which included two drummers and an additional percussionist, got to embellish their songs with more cymbal color.

But changes aside, !!! was also thoroughly upstaged by Battles, the night’s headlining act. Playing their only North American show of the year, the American foursome treated the event like a special occasion.” [PAPER]

Battles also played new songs…

“Among the new works played were tracks called “Sweetie and Shag” (a vocal and bass-heavy track), “SDICT” (which starts as a sparse set of back-and-forths between Braxton, Williams and Konopka and eventually comes to a crescendo when Stanier’s drums kick in) and “Sanford and Son” (which features Williams playing a loop in the middle of the song that sounds like what would happen if an accordion and a harmonica had a child — this was by far the best-received moment of the evening). Though it initially sounded out of place, the band played around it, letting the music evolve into something entirely different by the end.” [MTV]

The Friday night gig at Terminal 5 was the first of three Warp20 shows that happened over the weekend. The final one took place Saturday night with Jamie Lidell at Le Poisson Rouge. Pictures of Pivot HERE. The rest from Terminal 5, below…

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Pictures of Pivot HERE