Live
Odd Morris
100 Club, London
March 4 2020
Words: Izzy Butler
Pictures: Jamie MacMillan (top), Gerry J Ford (below)
It's not the biggest of London venues, but it is one of the best known and well respected, and on this cold, damp night, when you're playing on a bill for Annie Mac as part of her AMP festival, Dublin boys Odd Morris can't have wished for better than a sold out 100 Club.
It's only their second or third time stepping on a stage in the capital, but the vibe is good, the crowd welcoming and the beer flowing as they launch into their six-song set. Steeped in down-tuned, mesmeric post-punk, filtered through the liquidity of odic lyrics and the sensitively refined delivery of vocalist Daragh Griffin, it is more reserved, studied, and less frantic than The Murder Capital who take top billing on this occasion, but nonetheless intriguing.
That the crowd were unlikely to be overly familiar with the majority of the set - like the arousing 'Your Four Walls and closer 'Fervent Eyes' (a working title, the band tell us), they have mostly been freshly baked - did not seem to negate interest. Draped in hues of blue, red and purple, the lighting providing a backdrop for the palette of sound that came with the likes of single releases 'Lilac Leaves' and 'Cold Water'.
There's a more measured approach taken by this band; no fast action shenanigans, but intense slowburners that eat away into the heart and mind, weaving a dastardly web of composition around the unsuspecting listener.
"They're good, aren't they!" I hear someone say approvingly at one point, I think just after 'Cold Water'. Indeed they are.
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