Sunday, November 17, 2013

#1051 Team Spirit - Live at the Knitting Factory

Why the hell would you release this? This is the kind of performance that leaves you telling people "but they're not that good live" for months afterwards, why would you put it out there for everyone to hear?

This EP's a reordered run through the 5 tracks on Team Spirit's debut EP, and it's a clumsy set, played too fast: guitar solos are half-there; lines are delivered like a checklist, the singer struggling too hard to keep up to bother putting any particular feeling or nuance in them; the whole thing gives the impression of a band that considered playing these things live an afterthought. Completely missable, even for fans of their thrilling debut 1.5/5

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