UK band Snapped Ankles are on their first-ever North American tour, and that hit Brooklyn on Wednesday night at Baby's All Right, a show that BrooklynVegan co-presented with AdHoc. Having been wowed by their set at Iceland Airwaves in 2019, I was wondering if lightning would strike twice and am happy to report that their frenzied, groovy, forest-grown brand of post-punk komische had the crowd dancing pretty much from the start.
This is a group that really commits to the bit, "woodwose" folk -- almost like if Dr Seuss' The Lorax started a band -- who sound a cross between Neu!, The Fall and LCD Soundsystem, with logs hooked up to synthesizers and the band wearing masks that make them look like Yetis (or the cult in Yellowjackets). It's all set to a maniacal, motorik beat that didn't let up. The late show at Baby's got canceled, so Snapped Ankles ended up playing for nearly 90 minutes, with frontman Austin taking things into the crowd more than once. Super fun show.