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The thing about living in Beijing is that lots of groups seem to be “Beijing bands”, and when a band plays so often in the city, I often forget to delve any further into their heritage. So until Low Wormwood announced they were releasing an album entitled “Lanzhou Lanzhou”, I thought they were a Beijing band. They’ve been talked about and loved in folk circles for a long time, and lead singer Liu Kun’s prestige was well known to me. I just didn’t know they were from Lanzhou. But you couldn’t sit through this show — probably because of the album title, but not necessarily — without coming away with the feeling that Low Wormwood embodied Lanzhou in a way you only thought noodles could.
I hadn’t had time to give them a listen before the show, so their music was all new to me. The fan I went with told me that they were originally billed as “experimental folk” but, much like Xiao He, had dropped the “experimental” part of that genre. There was barely a trace of that experimental spirit in the music performed at this show, except perhaps the inclusion of the “pew-pew” noises from a toy gun, and some recordings from a noodle joint in Lanzhou. They definitely had their own style of folk, though, and I really enjoyed the mellow love songs like “Shei” alongside the rockier ones and their singalong crowd-pleasers. Each of them is highly talented at their instruments, and it comes out in their music, which is expertly performed even live. Despite two guitar strings breaking over the course of the show, the whole thing was carried out in a professional, practiced way.
However — and this doesn’t detract from their music an inch — that perfection bothered me a little. Maybe I’m just too used to seeing bands trip over their cords and fiddle with their pedals and tune their guitars midway through a song, but there’s something in seeing the way they deal with that I enjoy. A perfect set is a boring set, to me, and while Low Wormwood was great, their perfection was just a little boring. Still, I’ll definitely be getting their album and listening the hell out of it. Check out their Douban to get a taste of Lanzhou.
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