Ghostland Observatory come into their live show at a disadvantage. Unlike other touring electronic acts such as Hot Chip, Simian Mobile Disco and MGMT, their songs as they appear on the album are kind of awful. They sound like they dragged Daft Punk beats through a B-horror movie set in Transylvania and stuck singer Aaron Behrens’ Zack De La Rocha meets Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At The Drive-In/The Mars Volta) wail in front of it. The voice is powerful, sure, but sometimes it really doesn’t fit the groove they’ve created, or just straight-on grates.

Their live show is their attempt to severely overcompensate for this deficiency with a full on assault to the senses. By the end of the set my nose stung, my eyelids burned and there were little blue stars in the corners of my eyes. Unpleasant aftermath aside, their tactics certainly had the desired effect as the sold out audience full of dancers with glo-sticks ate up every second. Some of the other touring electro-dance acts could learn a few things about presentation from the Austin duo.