Final month, Deafheaven launched their monstrous, soul-stirring new album Lonely Individuals With Energy, and our pal Michael Nelson went deep into the motherfucking zone whereas describing all of the explanation why he thinks it’s their finest. On Saturday night time, Deafheaven kicked off a beast of a North American tour with Gatecreeper and Trauma Ray, they usually pulled the bizarre transfer of beginning a tour with considered one of its largest exhibits — in Los Angeles, on the Belasco. They pulled just a few extra uncommon strikes, too.
As I write this, Deafheaven are solely two exhibits into their tour, however they performed the identical setlists at each gigs. For now, at the least, they’re devoting the overwhelming majority of their setlist to their new LP. They’re enjoying virtually each music from the album, together with one of many interludes, they usually’re doing all these tracks within the order by which they seem on the LP. Alongside the best way, they take breaks for simply three songs from previous LPs: “Introduced To The Water” from New Bermuda, “Nugatory Animal” from Atypical Corrupt Human Love, and naturally “Dream Home” from Sunbather.
Deafheaven performed eight of the 12 tracks from Lonely Individuals With Energy on the Belasco present, and it was their first time enjoying any of these songs reside. It’s all the time onerous to gauge an excessive amount of from reside movies. From what I can inform, although, they sounded spectacular, and the gang was proper with them all through. A minimum of as soon as, George Clarke referred to as for a circle pit by tracing a circle within the air, which is all the time cool as hell. He acquired what he needed. Beneath, take a look at a fan-made clip of their nearer “Winona,” in addition to one other one of many total set and the gig’s setlist.
SETLIST:
01 “Doberman”
02 “Magnolia”
03 “Introduced To The Water”
04 “The Backyard Route”
05 “Heathen”
06 “Amethyst”
07 “Nugatory Animal”
08 “Incidental II”
09 “Revelator”
10 “Dream Home”
11 “Winona”
Lonely Individuals With Energy is out now on Roadrunner.
