Bat for Lashes at The El Rey

Hecuba sound German and the singer has a haircut like Ulrike Meinhof but it doesn't surprise me they are art-school hipsters based in LA. They are a strange boy/girl duo who sound like a crap Bat for Lashes...

Bat for Lashes sounded very good (probably better live than on cd) but am I alone in thinking they are (how can I put this) a little boring? Live, the music comes across as a cross between All About Eve and Siouxsie and the Banshees, or a gothic Kate Bush. Everything is kind of slow and even the uptempo numbers (there are few) have no groove. The best songs were 'Horse and I' and 'What's a girl to do' which are tellingly from the first album, although there was a nice stripped down version of 'Daniel'...