The songs from the group’s latest effort Dynamite Steps are lovingly constructed in recorded form, but live they took on a whole new dimension. “Last Night in Town” picked up an extra level of menace, while the melody of “The Beginning of the End” really blossomed with the assistance of the top-shelf sound system at the venue. And the set-closing “On the Corner” (which contains some of the most savage lyrics in Dulli’s back catalog) bled menace.

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