Noel Gallagher, revered by hordes almost as a Godlike figure, recently described Jagwar Ma as the ‘future’. No pressure, chaps. Playing on Sunday night to a sold out Rescue Rooms, the Australian band had a heap of expectation to live up to.
The trio – touring their debut album Howlin – open with the reverb-drenched, What Love. Frontman Gabriel Winterfield coos hypnotically throughout the repetitive, yet insanely catchy, track.
Come Save Me tells the familiar tale of an unrequited love, carried perfectly by a 60s pop backing track. Here, the multi-instrumentalist trio have a Beach Boys guise on – delivering sweet, sun-tinged harmonies.
Although attracting an eclectic audience with their genre-encompassing style, a baggy, Madchester vibe is prominent in most of the group’s work. The psychedelic The Throw could easily have featured on Screamadelica and latest single Man I Need transforms the venue into a scene from the legendary Haçienda– complete with its share of suspect haircuts.
Rarely interacting with the bustling audience, there is a nonchalant air about the band. This can be a peril, especially when prolonged jams at the tail end of certain tracks come across as distant and self-indulgent. However, when songs like Four hit their peak, the room explodes in a frenzy of fidgety synth. Punchy set-closer, That Loneliness, also typifies this – gloriously bursting into life at its climax and pushing the sound system’s bass remit to the limit.
Jagwar Ma certainly need a good polish at the edges, but Noel may just be onto something.
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