Pit Er Pat @ Limbo, The Voodoo Rooms, 14 May

 

In the sometimes sumptuous setting of the Voodoo Rooms, Pit Er Pat just about reach their comfort zone. Their feet seem to drag as they take the stage, but that initial reticence is lost as the audience swells before them and their limbs loosen, cobwebs shaken from their clothes. Playing tonight as a duo, Fay Davis-Jeffers and Butchy Fuego mingle spindly guitars with worldly M.I.A throbs and beat down rhythms, and as you rub your eyes, they could be a serrated plaster cast of two other American duos, Magik Markers and label mates High Places. For the most part, they ignore their most recent long player, High Time, interspersing brand new material with fruity jams, and while this boldness is an audacious setting of their stall, any opportunity to truly engage with the music remains frustratingly out of reach. As they grin to each other wryly, it seems like that was their very intention.