Floodland

Adult. returned to Cleveland last night and renewed my faith in them with a brief but fantastic set. Thankfully, they are once again a duo after the departure of Samuel Consiglio who briefly joined them on their previous album and tour. They've kept much of the intensity from their experiment as a trio but scrapped the extra guitar and I couldn't be happier. Nicola commented several times of a cold/sinus infection/whatever, but it was not apparent in her performance although I suspect they shortened the set because of it. Minor technical difficulties also affected their plans for the evening. Fortunately, neither illness nor equipment failures kept them from pumping out a blistering and intricate collection of both old and new to the small but enthusiastic crowd. Hopefully they'll make another stop in Cleveland this year and give us more. As for the opening acts, Plasma For Guns started the evening off with a self-indulgent mess of a set. A handful of friends joined...