[ATTENDED: August 3, 2017] Porches
I’ve complained several times already about the trip to the Mann and while this one moved a little more smoothly, we were still pretty late. We caught all of two songs from Porches.
I had heard of Porches when I saw that they were the opening slot for Belle & Sebastian and Andrew Bird, but I didn’t know much about them (I think I had them confused with about four other bands with similar names).
They are described as a synthpop band on Wikipedia, but as you can see from the photo, there’s more than synths. Lead Porch Aaron Maine was an amusing and engaged front man. I enjoyed that when he introduced the final song he said, “I suppose this will be our last song,” or something else noncommittal.
I often wonder why bands don’t simply add their own setlists to setlist.fm. I mean, if no one has bothered to upload your set, why not just go and do it? It’s all part of the promotion, right? So, I have no idea what songs we missed or what songs we heard.
The second to last song has a dreamy shoegaze quality to the guitars and an unexpected autotune in the vocals.
The final song had an amusingly drawn out ending. It was definitely more synth and I really liked the riff in it–shame the video only catches a moment of it.
I wish we had gotten to see more.
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