𝔎𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔞, 𝔖𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔪𝔪 𝔗𝔦𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔢 𝔳𝔬𝔩.𝟒

 ✪ Kelora, Swarmm & more at Peckham Audio for Tissue vol.4 - 13/04/2023

Not gonna lie, not the best night out there, I love Kelora’s new album and have been listening to it ever since its release. I've seen them play in a church in Stoke Newington as a duo, and that was quite beautiful. Can’t say the same for this second time though, the duo decided to perform with a band, which is very probably something they need to get used to or explore in a different way. In fact, knowing they were going to play a full band set I was

expecting those beautifully crafted cyber-folk songs to be translated into rock sludgy mania, enhancing the latent darkness of their tracks. Instead the bass player, drummer and even a 5th person operating an iphone, were merely there to accentuate certain passages, leaving 70% of the set to be composed by quietly and awkwardly played guitars (Peckham Audio’s sometimes sketchy sound system probably didn’t help) and achingly unaltered backing tracks, which were basically the whole song without the guitars (and sometimes even with the guitars!). If you have a band of 5 that should be enough to toss away the backing track and give a full live band experience.

Following Kelora, there’s Swarmm (who someone told me plays with Evanora Unlimited) , again expectations here were not met, and the set was just someone with a skull mask playing a badly wired violin which kept feedbacking (and the performer trying to controlling by reducing the gain to then put it back up as there was no volume when he did so...) over unnecessarily broken beats modern breakcore. The crowd was cheering as the performer went on a crazy manic dance while casually playing their violin over the beats with no

apparent intention, direction or narrative. The night closed with DJ Pax who was pretty good. A lot of amateurish content for 14£ in Peckham, not a good deal. 6/10