I Break Horses at Triple Rock, Minneapolis (26 April 2014)

Forsthays

Starting off the show, sharply at 9pm, with “Catching Lightning”, was local duo Forsthays. Although the band is in Minneapolis, they started off as a band in Berlin in 2012. Their music was assisted by a computer with programming and beats and Robar playing the bass, while Dominique, with his father’s hat, sings and insists that you can trust a man in suspenders. Musically, they’re influenced by Marvin Gaye and Billy Ocean, just to give you an idea of what they sound like.

Rival Consoles

With very little setup, Ryan Lee (otherwise performing as Rival Consoles) came on stage and basically played an hour set of EDM/dance/techno music. The scene was also in complete darkness with just a disco ball lighting the floor. After his set ended, he came back to the stage to remove his keyboard and laptop and was humbled by his newfound fans requesting an encore.



I Break Horses came on stage a little later than their original set time.
After hearing some Swedish chatter from the crowd, singer Maria Lindén was surprised, “It’s crazy that there are Swedes in the audience!”

Setlist

As you can see from their setlist, they had wanted to play much longer, however, after “Berceuse” was played, they confessed that they could not get their synthesizer to work. The next song on their set (“Weigh True Words”), the synth was crucial to the song, so while the sound tech was trying to fix it, they had a few fans from the audience “tell jokes” on stage. Since they never got it to work, the band decided to just end their set with “Faith”.



With the late running time, the sound problem, they decided to also end their show with just one song for encore, instead of the intended two.



Hopefully, I Break Horses got their equipment problem sorted out, as they still have some remaining U.S. tour dates left.
I Break Hores’ latest album Chiaroscuro is out now on PIAS America/Bella Union.