Live music reviews - Hackney Citizen

Mild High Club @ MOTH Club, live music review: chilled-out LA psych ‘like pink fluffy candyfloss’

Having collaborated many a time, on tour and on record, with scene giants King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Mild High Club’s three-set Hackney residency left our reviewer relaxed – too relaxed?

Author: Hackney Citizen

'Indistinguishable murmurs': Mild High Club singer Alexander Bretin has a laid-back vocal style. Photograph: Casey Cooper-Fis

Nabihah Iqbal @ Archspace, live music review: ‘dreamy existentialist electronica with a guitar kick’

The electronic music polymath (and occasional NTS Radio DJ) muses on poetry and the daily grind in her mesmerising debut live show

Author: Hackney Citizen

The Myrrors @ Shacklewell Arms, live music review: epic desert psych improves with volume

Our reviewer stuck with the Arizona band, through 15 minute songs and a chatty Dalston crowd, to reach a climactic finale

Author: Hackney Citizen

Mystics: The Myrrors live at the Shacklewell Arms last Friday 16 February. Photographs: Casey Cooper-Fiske

Yak @ Village Underground, live music review: the whole world in their hands

Yak’s wild take on modern psychedelia is only enhanced by the energetic antics of whirlwind frontman Oli Burslem

Author: Hackney Citizen

'Freak out jams': Yak in full flow on stage at Village Underground. Photographs: Casey Cooper-Fiske

Fluffer Pit Party, Dalston Epic, review: Deap Vally attack from all angles

The vaunted 360-degree stage may dilute their energy slightly, but LA’s Deap Vally were still able to blow the crowd away when they hit Dalston last week

Author: Hackney Citizen

"Ferocious energy": Deap Vally's Lindsey Troy rockets around the 360 degree stage. Photograph: Casey Cooper-Fiske

Marc Ribot, Cafe Oto, live review: ‘the gentle sentiments of a man who worships music’

This Elvis Costello collaborator and Americana expert, said to be ‘one of the greatest living guitar players’, hunkered down in Dalston for a two day residency

Author: Hackney Citizen