Audio By Carbonatix
Trial of the Century, the sophomore album by New York’s French Kicks, didn’t get the attention it deserved from Spoon fans enamored of that group’s taut white-soul indie rock. Live, the band cranks up to a steady simmer only suggested by the record, while front man Nick Stumpf works his lovely falsetto till it fills the room. Fellow New York-based openers Ambulance LTD and Calla play so-so variants on the kind of spaced-out guitar rock currently making a comeback in college-rock circles. Ambulance is a little more melodic, Calla a little more atmospheric.
