White Belt Yellow Tag @ Hoxton Bar and Kitchen

Walk down the right back alley in Shoreditch and you can find anything: discarded feathercuts, trendy organic beer bottles… a few thousand indie bands that fell by the wayside just last week.

Look hard enough and you’ll also find several gigantic sacks full of the glowing reviews we’ve previously bestowed on White Belt Yellow Tag. You won’t miss them either: they’re a bit wordy, full of positive adjectives and can currently be found just outside of the venue for the band’s latest triumphant gig, the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen.

The problem for us is that we’re running out of ways to tell you quite how good they are, but we’ll give it one more go anyway. As a live entity WBYT has everything: powerful, pulsing drums; the right balance of soft and heavy songs; and the foresight to have two guitarists willing to allow their lines to tangle around each other and create a sonic canvas so striking it’ll knock you off your feet.

The songs do miss the vocal harmonies present on the LP, but the material still stands firm with former singles ‘Remains’ and ‘Tell Your Friends (It All Worked Out)’ bolstering an already rock-solid set.

As set closers go, the euphoric ‘We All Have Sound’ is about as damn near perfect as you could hope to get and really drives home the fact that WBYT are genuinely one of the best bands an awful lot of you aren’t listening to… yet.