Boydos @ Cafe Lounge, 29th Jan

“Boydos are solo tonight, and prove that the only real test of a band is whether the songs cut it when it’s stripped all the way back. Clearing the bar with room to spare, we get Lou Reed-ish chug-and-strum-and-drawl, we get deceptively simple but deeply complex songwriting, we get charm everywhere. It sounds like a beautiful scar.”