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Last week’s Yeasayer set at Neumo’s was preceded by one band, Chicago crazymakers Icy Demons. Last night’s M83 show also had only one opener, School of Seven Bells. And on top of that, the show actually started early, with M83 taking the stage at 10:20 p.m. Last night’s show wasn’t the most amazing thing ever. The French electro-shoegazers are *reeeeeally* low-key in terms of audience interaction, and the sound mix, especially at the beginning of the show, was wack, with muddy vocals and way too heavy bass. Still, the Saturdays=Youth-heavy set was solidly, sonically taut, with special propers for Morgan Kibby’s strong yet ethereal vocals on "Skin of the Night" and the extra-security wild drummer enclosure.

As far as we can tell, Icy Demons are neither icy nor demons. Instead, they are fronted by a guy playing upright bass and wearing panda pants who could easily be Wesley Willis' nephew. The Demons kinda remind us of The Unicorns, in that every song seems to contain bits and pieces of multiple songs from multiple genres, both hits and misses. For the final song of the Chicago band's all-over-the-place opening set, the aforementioned potentially crazy guy jumped into the Neumo's audience and got all up in our dear Donte's grill, the result of which is the photo on the left. According to Donte, he is indicating, "I want YOU to rock out to our fun, loud, weird music!" but we're pretty sure he was getting ready to attack, schizophrenic hobo-style.

Yeasayer's appearance at Neumos has already been plugged today, but Seattlest would be remiss if we didn't also advise showing up for tonight's openers, Icy Demons. The video above is from their 2004 album Fight Back!, showing the band's more mellow side, but helps to get across the band's light-hearted vibe. Their latest album, Miami Ice, deftly switches between the 8-bit party jam of the title track and jazzier fare like "Jantar Mantar." Rather than following one direction faithfully, Miami Ice sprawls stylistically (understandable considering the band's other memberships in Man Man, Tortoise, and Prefuse 73), but isn't jarring because it's so damn...pleasant. We're really curious to see if the audience tonight can keep up with the dizzying changes.