Pendulum

<img src="http://www.qromag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/pendulumfeb5.jpg" alt="Pendulum : Live" /> Saturday night in New York, Pendulum may have single-handedly solved the world energy crisis, as the crowd <span style="font-weight: normal">released enough energy...
Pendulum : Live

Pendulum

Rob SwireSaturday night, February 5th, Pendulum may have single-handedly solved the world energy crisis.  The Irving Plaza (QRO venue review) audience, quite a few of whom were past their bedtime, released enough energy to heat a small village in Alaska or melt the snow covering the Tri-State area streets.

On stage, after Innerpartysystem (QRO photos) lit up the room with a short but dense opening set, the band fueled this horde of young and, quickly, drenched crowd with most of the tracks from their latest LP, Immersion.  From leapin' Swire!"Genesis" to "Watercolour", this ninety-minute show, which also included a couple of tunes from In Silico, could have been one of the best of 2011.

Pendulum, who, across the pond, sells out stadiums and is regularly on top of the charts, is particularly brilliant when they compose instrumentals.  So why does Benjamin Mount feel necessary to chat during these, otherwise, close to perfect pieces of music?  He’s not rapping or singing in a Leonard Cohen-esque style.  He’s just talking, sometimes firing up the audience, while other times simply soliloquizing his thoughts.  This was most troubling when the band worked their way through the cover of Prodigy’s iconic "Voodoo People".

Once the listener gets over this and lets the roaring bass invade its conscience, it quickly becomes evident that Pendulum delivers on its promises: a powerful show that can move a crowd up and down under a beat and rip shirts off dancing bodies.  "It’s drum and bass!  What you gonna do?"
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