When a band is finishing up their tour, one of two things tend to happen. The band will either completely cash in the performance due to exhaustion or really give the audience a set to remember. Honestly, Brooklyn’s White Rabbits probably could’ve phoned in the performance and due to the strength of the material on last year’s breakout album Fort Nightly and nobody would’ve been able to tell. However, when they started the set with their percussion-heavy and unreleased track “Sea of Rome,” and singer/keyboardist Stephen Patterson, picked up the drumsticks, his face read that there was nothing he’d rather be doing.

The Black Cat, which had seemed rather empty just minutes before experienced a sudden rush toward the stage as the band went into the tap-happy “While We Go Dancing”, paying tribute to their tour opener Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson by all wearing their t-shirts. As tight as the drumming sounds on their album, the energy exhibited by dueling drummers Matt Clark and Jamie Levinson blows their recorded work out of the water, especially since the beats always seem complementary, making the audience dance, but never producing excess noise.

The singers also kept that complementary aesthetic for as Patterson turned red-faced as he pounded the keys and occasionally screamed out the lyrics, the guitar-playing singer, Greg Roberts, looked stoic in comparison; rarely showing emotion in his face, saving it for the dark harmonies he shared with Patterson.