Datarock | San Francisco | Review

26.05.12

French electropop league together Anoraak delivered a solid opening performance for their first-ever show in the United States. They layered harmonious guitar chords over sporadic loops of synthesizer notes and continuous drum rhythms, which came together to create lively, danceable songs. The guitarist added smooth and mellow vocal parts into the mix, which gave them a sound similar to their fellow countrymen in Phoenix crossed with Australia’s Miami Horror. One player fluidly switched from playing bass guitar to synth parts on his keyboard. The three-piece group occasionally extended their songs into longer instrumental compositions, and these were the most suitable moments of their set. Their closing song progressed into a grooving jam as the lead singer jumped onto a secondary synthesizer while keeping the worn out on a tambourine, creating a very rhythm-heavy mash of sounds that the audience was most excited for. This first US show for Anoraak went exceptionally well, and I’m sure that they

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