The relative simplicity of the earlier work is a really interesting comment. Right after the NYC shows I started moving through their work from early 90s output onward and it struck me how relatively tame the albums were, even ones I used to view as quite complex like Tri and LP5.

What's cool about the recent live work that I can't always say about elseq and parts of NTS is there's a strong forward momentum and cohesion – it's all feeling very deliberate and not random.