Winnipeg's Yes We Mystic returned to Lethbridge to show a decent Wednesday night crowd at the Slice, Sept. 23 how to create beautifully layered indie rock music using traditional instruments and plenty of keyboards.
The crowd hung on every note, as the Winnipeg band weaved beautiful soundscapes out of mandolin, fiddle, guitar, ethereal vocals and subtly placed keyboards.
The band members effortlessly switched instruments, sometimes in the middle of a song without missing a note.
The band members showed you don’t have to scream and shout to play an intense show as they danced in place and dug in, lost in the musical tapestry they wove which was full full of cascading crescendos of notes and waves of sound.
The songs sounded similar enough that they intertwined together. The band would play some false stops and ended songs abruptly, leaving the audience to applaud after each one.