Ought @ Stereo, Glasgow, 22 Apr

After the spirited Savages-meets-Cribs post-punk of Drahla, Ought have to deal with a couple of technical hitches before settling into their groove. Opening with four tracks from their brilliant new album Room Inside the World, there's a fairly muted reaction from the crowd, polite but not ecstatic, despite Tim Darcy's vocal acrobatics on Disgraced in America or the coiled fury of Desire.

Any time there's room to move in Stereo it's obviously not a sellout and, though it's far from empty, there is a consciously unusual amount of space. A packed house would've probably added nicely to the dizzying claustrophobia of mid-set hits like Men for Miles and Beautiful Blue Sky, but they stand well enough thanks to Darcy's presence. He has the awkward magnetism of David Byrne, the spasmodic gyrations of Ian Curtis and the finger-wagging charm of Jarvis Cocker, and it all amounts to an utterly compelling character, with deadpan irony between songs ("Anyone seen us before? ...Sick") and sincere proclamations within them.

Disaffectation provides a climactic peak before they close the main set with Alice. This seems like a strange choice because, although mirroring the opening and closing of the new album with tonight's set, it's one of the band's most languorous, freeform experiments, leaving the set on a question mark rather than an exclamation point. A simple encore of Today More Than Any Other Day (The Weather Song is seemingly cut due to curfew restraints) provides a rollicking send-off to what was ultimately a great show, despite the band perhaps not quite firing on all cylinders.