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Since then, OMAM has grown to incorporate snazzy set design and add multi-instrumentalist touring members to their band, allowing them to reach their full folk glory with magnificent crescendos of accordion, piano, and errmahgahh that TRUMPET. With Christmas lights as a backdrop-literally, the same classy lights that hang on my porch 12 months per year-the group performed their songs to an audience that was largely hearing them for the first time that very evening. In April 2012, several hundred friends and I packed ourselves into Black Cat for OMAM’s first foray in DC, a day before their full-length dropped. Though the sea of people on the grounds was already evident, it wasn’t until the one-minute mark of Dirty Paws-right as the quiet folk tune of the first verse explodes into full instrumentation-that the implication of the evening’s scale fully sunk in.
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OMAM’s offerings spanned the entirety of their first album, My Head Is An Animal, kicking off with album opener Dirty Paws, which interrupted the delightfully traditional Icelandic tunes playing during the set changeover. With thousands of fans making the trek to the legendary venue, OMAM did not disappoint, swelling their sound to match the space, Icelandic folk-pop ringing triumphant. Tuesday’s show at Merriweather Post Pavilion was nothing short of a victory lap celebrating that pinnacle. Much like their setlist, there’s not much in the way of new territory to discuss, but the nonstop touring since December’s sold out 9:30 Club show has helped launch Of Monsters and Men to even grander heights.
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What is there to say about a band you reviewed seven months ago? All words: Courtney Pitman, all photos: Elizabeth Parker