Metronomy's stock has risen in recent years.
The diminutive Devon quartet have been lauded as masters of the modern indie remix and now a reputation for bringing formidable four-to-the-floor beats precedes their every gig.
In Liverpool, their audience is nothing if not partisan. Grimy dives which one formed a hub of the city's alternative rock scene today throb with massive beats of Metronomy and their contemporaries.
The crowd is pumped for their arrival, so much so that the 02 Academy crackles with an electric expectation. A moment later Metronomy took to the stage, their out-of-space light show seemingly powered by that atmosphere.
And as if harnessing that energy - they wasted no time in cranking up the generator.
With bassist Gbenga Adelekan riding roughshod over a rhythmic set of compelling dance beats, stand out tracks such as My Heart Rate Rapid and Heartbreaker seemed to stretch the room with swells of electro funk.
White spotlights emitting from the gyrating chests of all four members became a hypnotic human light show as oddball as their array of tunes, but every bit as intriguing.
Such gimmicks have been known to add pretence to dance gigs. But for these dance dudes it's all business in a relentless set of raucousness which remains all about the tunes.
These guys aren't messing around - After the electric storm, a tempest of dancefloor domination, they are gone. The audience satisfied and but spent, they need nor want an encore.
And for Metronomy, it's onto the next one.
Daft Punk do the robot-DJ-aliens thing, and so do Joseph Mount and his band. It's different though, there's nothing cute - the crowd certainly don't feel digitally loved.
More, electrically ambushed, battered with bass and feeling that they didn't have a great deal in anything that happened. We are willing victims of the Metronomy madness.
9/10
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