After a summer of festival appearances and a warm reception for their debut album, ‘A Dream Outside’ (released in June on Transgressive), Gengahr head to Komedia on a upswing of goodwill. Don’t be deceived by the ‘ethereal psych-rock’ tag, though. Live they are powered by a taut energy and their ear for inventive pop sparks everything into life. And amid the hushed vocals and elegant guitar wash, Gengahr have an unhealthy fascination with the macabre, an endearing Hammer Horror-style line in vaguely Satanic kitsch: slapstick seances, witchy romances, insecure vampires and the like. Not goths, mind: geeks. They may fancy themselves as suburban sinister, but they’re a bit silly and they know it. Perfect as a pre-Halloween mood-setter.
Komedia, Tuesday 6th October 2015