Son Lux @ Broadcast, 3 June

Local lads Kill The Waves draw a big crowd for their dream pop-inflected indie set – tracks Friend and Oak Tree showcase some serious songwriting chops, but they pull focus a little from Luxembourg’s Sun Glitters, who follows up their set with some luscious, shoegazing electronic drawing on post-dubstep and glitched broken beat. His dreamy beatscapes, equal parts Jesus and Mary Chain and proto-Warp IDM, resonate with spectral beauty nonetheless.

New York’s Son Lux, aka Ryan Lott, is backed by guitarist Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian Chang, pulling the measured, haunting crescendoes of 2013 album Lanterns into angular shapes. Above it all, Lott’s voice soars, at times angelic and pure-toned, at others like the growl of a heartbroken and disaffected choirboy. Pleading with the audience, crooning and beckoning, Lott has the crowd transfixed. The cathartic sweep of Alternate Worlds bleeds into a funk-infused Easy; a rousing Pyre and a breathless, cumulative Lost it to Trying nearly elicit tears. On record, Son Lux are unique – live, they are dynamic, cathartic, heart-stopping.