Princes Street Gardens
Neil Cooper
★★★★
There was a sense of past meeting present at Edinburgh's 2011/12 Concert in the Gardens. If local band competition winners Mike Norris and the Moon play around with the sort of polite folksy stylings that are oddly de rigeur just now, the abrasive urgency and sparring male/female vocals of Sons and Daughters could easily be mistaken for early 1980s post-punk provocateurs The Au Pairs. Bombay Bicycle Club vocalist Jack Steadman, meanwhile, has the pitch of the late New York ambient classicist Arthur Russell if he'd formed an indie band.
