Sometimes a show comes along that makes you let out a tiny sob of joy. So it is with this special reunion show of the technicolor math rock quartet Enemies, who are returning to London for the first time since 2016, accompanied by long-time Pink Mist favourites, all-round good dudes, and incidentally totally excellent, DELTA SLEEP.
Hailing from the small village of Kilcoole on the east coast of Ireland, Enemies spent the latter years of the 2000s honing a unique style of intricate, instrumental, multifaceted guitar music that would take them far beyond the hills of County Wicklow. From the fertile math/post-rock scene that coalesced around Irish indie label Richter Collective, they signed to Machupicchu Industrias in Japan and Topshelf Records in the US, extensive tours of the US, Europe and Asia and broad cult acclaim would follow.
In 2016, having toured the US coast-to-coast, the band announced that their third album ‘Valuables’ would be their last. Enemies finished off 2016 with their largest ever Irish show at Dublin’s Vicar Street. Writing for The Thin Air, Eoin Murray described the event as “a triumph; one of those gigs where every exchange between the audience and the performers felt sincere and purposeful.”
If you're reading this, the chances are Delta Sleep needs little introduction; their expansive, future-facing re-imagining of math pop has beguiled audiences from Japan to Dallas and, well, just about everywhere else. At once both intimate and glacial, their most recent record, 'Spring Island' is a stratospheric return — a cathartic journey birthed in sonic excellence that is one of their most exciting releases to date.
A statement from ENEMIES:
What started this whole reunion idea? It’s simple: we missed having fun with each other. We missed our friendships, our laughter, our flow, our songs. We missed the goofy, hyperactive energy that we felt when we jammed in a room together. In short, we missed our band.
With maturity, time and distance we’ve developed a heightened appreciation for the chemistry between the four of us, and just how special it was. We were lucky to find each other in 2007, and to create that kind of joyous noise together. We decided to see how it would feel to hang out and play those songs again; without any of the agendas or pressures that broke us apart. To go back to basics. Playing together, just for fun. Hanging out and being dumb friends again. Irish math-rock band ENEMIES reform with original line-up and announce a London show in September.
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