{"id":16314,"date":"2017-06-18T17:59:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/gig_reviews\/?p=16314"},"modified":"2017-06-18T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T00:59:10","slug":"dream-odyssey-mono-low-begin-co-headline-mini-tour-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/gig_reviews\/2017\/06\/18\/dream-odyssey-mono-low-begin-co-headline-mini-tour-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Odyssey: Mono & Low begin co-headline mini-tour in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Andrew Bansal<\/strong>
\n(photos by C. Jones)<\/em><\/p>\n

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June 12th 2017, Globe Theatre, Los Angeles CA:\u00a0<\/strong>Two longstanding bands that\u00a0have both carved out their unique identities in the psychedelic rock realm yet hail from vastly different parts of the world, Japanese\u00a0group Mono and Duluth, Minnesota outfit Low joined forces for a co-headline mini-tour, and began their journey up the US West Coast with the first show last Monday June 12th at the Globe Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. The combination of Mono’s mesmerizing instrumental rock and Low’s\u00a0dreamy, minimalist tunes, was one not to be missed, specially at a venue\u00a0LA rock\/metal concertgoers are not used to visiting. The queue of ticket holders waiting for\u00a0the theatre doors to open was long, and the air was abuzz with the anticipation of a great evening.<\/p>\n

Low<\/strong><\/a> was first on stage promptly at 9 o’ clock, and they started their 60-minute set with ‘No Comprende’ from their latest full-length ‘Ones and Sixes’ (2015), the vocal harmonies between guitarist Alan Sparhawk and drummer Mimi Parker standing out as the most striking feature of the band’s musicianship straightaway. The band lives up to its\u00a0name in that the musical style is low-energy, melancholic and minimalistic, but its power and expressiveness cannot be denied, and Low held this audience in a dreamy trance, many attendees, specially those who were properly medicated prior to the show, finding themselves physically frozen and mentally lost in a fantastical trip. The meditative state of the audience was only broken by someone from the back randomly yelling, “That was really good!”, two songs into the set, inducing laughter.<\/p>\n

A major chunk of the set was devoted to the aforementioned latest album, but the band also brought forth some older material, going as far back as 2001 for the song ‘Sunflower’. For a band like Mono, there could not have been a co-headline act more fitting\u00a0than Low, and this was all the\u00a0more evident\u00a0when Mono joined Low on stage for\u00a0‘Majesty\/Magic’, the highlight of the Low set without a doubt. All in all, Low’s performance was the perfect\u00a0companion to that of Mono’s, and did not go unnoticed or unappreciated.<\/p>\n

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