Word: bolt
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...Television, the Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop, and there's no ignoring the influences when drummer Fabrizio Moretti (also known as Drew Barrymore's boyfriend; I told you there were many reasons to hate them) bangs out a snare fill that would make Led Zeppelin's John Bonham sit bolt upright in his grave. But the Strokes don't agonize over their influences, they synthesize them, and songs like 12:51 and Between Love & Hate add up to more than the sum of their stolen parts because the band is so tight. Moretti is a much more confident drummer this...
...more and more people trickled in to see the experimental hardcore duo, one could feel the anticipation swell. Where would Lightning Bolt, notorious for playing on a venue’s floor instead of its stage, set up? And just how loud is “loud” anyhow...
...course, volume—and lots of it—is crucial to Lightning Bolt...
Concentrated, constant volume often translates into one type of emotion: anger—or extreme excitement. Lightning Bolt, however, manage to evoke all kinds of musical landscapes within their relentless noise. Hints of sadness and wonder break through the abstraction...
When it ended, Lightning Bolt seemed to vanish. The noise was gone and the magic disappeared as the audience lost its collective power. The quiet after the storm was alarming...