Vessels @ Sneaky Pete's, 7 Apr

Music journalists have been sounding the death-knell for post-rock for years now, assuming that the recent patchy output of Stuart Braithwaite's likely lads Mogwai somehow stands as an omen over every band that dares to treat vocals like an instrument, or move away from three minute verse-chorus structure. The sombre proclamations that the genre is now entrenched in a rut seem to have bypassed Vessels, whose album White Fields And Open Devices brims with open-sky experimentation and envelope-pushing. This five-piece dabble with ambience, noise, and even metal, but avoid sounding schizophrenic: see this show and consider the genre orthodoxy well and truly smashed.