Set 1
Always a great sign when you get a Buried Alive opener! And wow!!! A genuinely terrific version for once!! Zero slop here, super fireball energy abound....now THIS is what Buried Alive needs to sound like every time!
Character Zero is up next. Very, very refreshing to get it so early! It
actually almost sounds fresh! This is a wonderful and unique version
going surprisingly chill and laid back before slowly building back to
the climax. Give this a listen!
Hey Stranger is absolutely spectacular tonight. Starting chill, Page
goes ham on the synths delivering a sick "havent heard that before!"
solo before Mike and Trey both get turns. As with Zero it builds heat as
it goes along and rages to the finale. Must hear!!! Type 1 doesnt get much better than this! A+++++
And then...woah boy.....in slot 4, we get a friggin 17
minute Disease! And this isnt any Disease, this one is TIGHT, played
uptempo, and FULL of the energy a good one needs! The jam is superb,
getting grimy to start before slowly building and building into a
ridiculous hose climax for minutes. This is different from the "by
numbers" Sphere hose. This is "legit" hose. X FACTOR MAGIC ALL OVER
THIS!! THIS IS THE BEST DISEASE THEY HAVE PLAYED SINCE.....A LONG
TIME!!!!! THIS IS SPECTACULAR!!!!!
What a start to the show so far!!! My god!!! And the way Trey lead them back into the Disease outro out of the jam was just ......smooth isnt the word!!!!
After a slight dip for average readings of Roggae and NICU, we get an
incredible 14 minute Stash. Slightly scattershot, it blisses out early,
hits the robo fx, blisses again and then moves dark to close out. A bit
too short for its own good but still absolutely terrific the way it
FLOWS. Call this must hear!!!
Same for the set ending 46 Days. Youve heard this before but it still annihilates!
All in all, set 1 is a pretty smashing success. Hey Stranger,
Disease and Stash are all must hear, and Buried Alive, C Zero and 46 are
all worth a listen. They definitely came to kill and smashed the door right open!!! Killer set!!!
Set 2
The "reverse set placement" fun continues with an uber rare
Suzy>Antelope opening. Suzy is merely average, but Antelope is pure
fire. As with BA in set 1, this is what Antelope should sound like!! Maybe not must hear but absolutely worth a listen. This thing is PURE FIRE!!!
A 19 minute Ghost follow afterwards. Not my favorite, it stays in
enjoyable but average "hose bliss"/"chord vamping" mode all the way
until 15 minutes. Its honestly rather boring. But then in the end they
dive into a super dark, deep space, BLACK HOLE robo vortext for several
glorious minutes!!!!
Trey yanks the jam and segues them - surprisingly well! - into Light. Light is quite good but nothing super special by the end.
The following Pillow Jets feels perfectly placed out of Light and the BASOS that follows feels the same. A+ on FLOW in this set!!! Sea
of Stars is must hear - a terrific type 2 "microjam" (if this was
2019...) with a stellar outro back into the song. Wonderful little
version!!!
Thankfully something finally goes right when the set closes with an incredible 16
minute Melt. This one is absolutely unhinged!!! Picture something ala
the 12/6/97 Tweezerbella with Trey just going completely off the deep
end into psychedelic wah abuse annihilation. Total X Factor all over this one!!! One of the finest of recent years for sure!!!!
An excellent Hood is the perfect choice for encore!!!
All in all, set 2 really felt like it was floundering for the most
part. Sea of Stars and Melt were both legit incredible and Antelope was
FIRE, but a lot of the rest of the set felt "unfulfilled", if you will.
As a whole, this WAS a pretty great first show of tour, but it definitely had some issues here and there.
Hey Stranger, Melt, Sea of Stars, Stash and that INCREDIBLE Disease were all spectacular though!!! 
Seriously, Melt, Disease and Hey Stranger - GRAB THOSE!!!
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