Live Review: Owl Eyes, Collarbones, Mammals

In what was a particularly quiet night, a small crowd gathered for opening acts Mammals and Collarbones before Owl Eyes came to the stage. After releasing a string of EPs and singles over the last few years, this tour was in celebration of her debut album Nightswim and much of the set list comprised of these tracks.

Performing under the moniker Owl Eyes, Brooke Addamo kept her stage banter to a minimum and let her music do all the talking as she entertained the intimate crowd with her vocal prowess. Opening up with Nightswim she had much of the crowd with her from the get go. While some fans may have been a little disappointed in the direction of her album, some of the more '80s synth-focused material off it also didn't transcend well to the live arena as her more upbeat tracks. Hurricane and Golden Lies worked well, but Open Up and Diamonds In Her Eyes fell a little flat. The crowd lapped up her remix of Armand Van Helden's You Don't Even Know Me and Stardust's Music Sounds Better With You and danced and sang along with her as she moved around the tiny stage.

As the end of her set drew near she told the crowd that this was usually the time where she would say she had one more song left and then they would leave and come back for two more songs. But on this occasion Addamo pointed out there was nowhere for them to really go offstage, so they were just going to stay, and closed the night off with a great performance of Closure and Raiders.