Live Review: ARIA Week: Alpine, Oh Mercy, Oliver Tank

Oliver Tank opened up the night - part of the inaugural ARIA Week - and produced an incredible set. The rich, textured sounds of Up All Night reverberated off the venue's walls atmospherically. While he was there the 22-year-old also managed to make Snoop Dogg's Beautiful haunting with echoing vocals and melodies. It's easy to get lost in Oliver Tank's dreamscape – the depth of his back catalogue already strong enough to hold attention.

Appearing to struggle at first, Oh Mercy turned their set around before too long. Initial technical glitches seemed to hinder the audience's attention, but by the time the foreboding keyboard melody of Pilgrim's Blues swelled they'd captured the crowd. From that point Alex Gow's band gained momentum and breezed through tracks from their most recent two albums. Gow kept punters on their toes with vocal transitions from the soft and sugary to the dark and dirty drawl. Tonight the crowd were being lulled by the tenderness of Stay Please Stay and the next moment seduced by the reggae-tinged Still Making Me Pay.

Bringing the night to a close, Alpine delivered an hour's worth of enchanting track largely lifted from their debut album. Two of the sweetest voices in local music today, leading ladies Phoebe and Lou sung breathily into microphones, cooing the audience with harmonies and their off-kilter, but sensual, presence., The gentlemen of the band stood coolly in the background offsetting their light voices with driving beats. Throughout, their melancholy tone slyly urged audience members into impulsive dancing. Their rhythm was contagious, those in the crowd mimicked the sounds of the stage with the movement of their hips.