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Miss Grit (New York’s Margaret Sohn ) played a set at Lafayette in London’s Kings Cross, supporting Bartees Strange.
Consisting of tracks taken from the excellent debut Miss Grit album for Mute , Follow The Cyborg , Sohn seems to embody a certain captivating impassivity in their performance. It’s almost as if Sohn is playing the cyborg character that dominates the theming of their album: movements are scant, they cradle their white guitar like it’s another limb and there is a sort of emotionlessness etched on their face, even as the music on a track like ‘Follow The Cyborg’ reaches a climactic, feverish intensity.
Watching their guitar playing on ‘Like You’ is utterly mesmerising. Sohn is adept at affixing big, snarling riffs onto their songs in a style not dissimilar to Robert Fripp’s work on Bowie’s ‘Fashion’. These riffs arrive with an abruptness and intensity that’s often at odds with either Sohn’s vocals or their electronic arrangements, much as their smile at the end of a piece seemed incompatible with the detachment of the performance itself, or the philosophical gravity of the lyrics. The movements of Sohn’s
Further. – a small music blog
Documentary Evidence | a mute records blog by Mat Smith
STUMM433 Blog – a Documentary Evidence project