Band of Horses | Live music review

The Roundhouse, London"In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins is one of those ludicrous 80s soundtracks whose true brilliance only dawns on you in later years. Back then it sounded ghastly. In fact, "In The Air Tonight" is a superb piece of synthetic divorce-rock. Claustrophobic and bilious, it invests gated drums with unforeseeable emotional heft. It is most certainly not the sort of intro music you would expect from mild-mannered country-rock up'n'comers Band of Horses, a Carolinas five-piece for...

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