Reviews

With Sounds Like Sunset and Massappeal on the members’ CVs, they come at you relentlessly – owing something to their suburban origins and growing up on the sludgier and more muddied edge of the Seattle sound.

Across its sometimes delicate components there is an absolute craft and care.

With the follow-up to last year’s self-titled debut LP, the Brooklyn four-piece still feel a little like they’re finding their feet, probing the different possibilities of how to make a corner of this lovable loser summer pop their own.

Eventually, a four-song encore stretches the love-in out just a little longer, Death’s Song concluding an evening you wish wouldn’t end.

Judging by a lot of the Heaps Decent crew’s stage names, they’re never growing up – and why grow up when you’ve got the world at your feet? It might sound corny but tonight it felt real, as Ra’$$el Cool sang: “One day I’mma make it/See an opportunity coming I’m gonna take it/I’m a future star, the galaxy is close I can feel it”.

An experience like this comes but once in a lifetime and those that were fortunate enough to have attended will know exactly what that means.

The pomposity of recent albums may have alienated many, but the OTT spectacle allowed for an irresistible reconnection.

There’s no way they’ll be forgotten during their time off touring.