I've been meaning to see Foxtails live since I heard them in a Music League round a little over two years ago. Even though they play the Boston area fairly frequently, it has just never quite worked out. Luckily, everything aligned Saturday night, and I finally got to check them out. Also, Tysk Tysk Task was opening the show, and I'll obviously head out any time I can see them.
The first band on stage was Tysk Tysk Task, a longtime favorite here at If It's Too Loud... It also happened to be drummer Matt Graber's last show with the band, so I'm glad to have gotten the chance to make this one. The band has firmly settled into their indie grunge meets shoegaze sound and it continues to evolve even with more familiar songs. A song like "Colors" has truly found new life with this style and is still slightly changed each time I've seen them, going on roughly three years now. Longtime closer "Flies" was replaced by the new song "Toadstool," and that's becoming a song I love more and more each time I hear it. It might be the most intense song in their repertoire, and that's saying quite a bit.
Andro Queen played next. They're a band I was completely unfamiliar with except for the two songs they officially have out. They're a Boston based "queer femme punk band," although their sound goes further than that. Some of their songs were straight up punk, others more of a noise punk style, and some were more pop focused. They played an intense set that got the crowd quite into it. It's always great when a band can play such loud and intense songs but still make their show a good time. They're a band we'll be keeping an eye on in the future.
Foxtails made the trek up from Connecticut for the show, and I'm thrilled that they did. The band combines melodic indie rock with hardcore, and add violin to that sound. Blue Luno Solaz (vocals, bass) gave the single most intense performance I've ever seen from a seated performer, and transitioned from melodic singing to pure screaming perfectly. This is one of the most captivating bands I've seen live this year, and they just kept pulling me in deeper and deeper with every song. They are masters of mixing the beautiful with the crushingly loud, and sometimes you need that.
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