Another Sky @ YES Basement, Manchester, 11 Feb

With a short seven song set, Another Sky impress the packed out Manchester venue, managing to sound unlike anyone else

Live Review by Pete Wild | 14 Feb 2019
  • Another Sky

Picture the smallest venue you’ve ever attended. Fold it in half eight times, until you’re standing in an impossibly small room with a very low ceiling. Now add in about 100 people, and finally welcome four musicians to a cave-like stage. Periodically obscured by both darkness and light, they start to play and it's as if the room falls away and you're standing by yourself on the surface of the moon.

This is Another Sky, quite possibly the soon-to-be-biggest band we’ve ever seen in a teeny tiny venue. At times, they sound a little like London Grammar in that they do that glacial guitar/Arctic piano thing. But they also sound unlike London Grammar, and unlike anyone else. Part of what sets them apart is Catrin Vincent, the frontwoman whose vocals swoop and pitch; delicate highs, gruff lows. But the rest of the band are terrific too. Max Doohan plays drums that roll with the urgency of The National’s Bryan Devendorf but snap with the percussive funk of Clyde Stubblefield; Jack Gilbert is the guitar foil to Vincent’s keyboards, a crucial part of Another Sky’s evolving sound; Naomi Le Dune on bass is responsible for at least two moments of the fuzziest, dirtiest bass its ever been our privilege to hear.

They play a seven song set and we’re treated to songs like Chillers, an anthem for the #MeToo generation and a signal that here is a band prepared to shout about things that matter, and Avalanche, which rocks like the proverbial bastard. And it’s still early days. You sense their excitement: "We’re off to America next week," Vincent says on the back of the crowd singing along to one of their songs for the first time. It’s just the beginning we sense. The sky's the limit...

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