It was a little bit funny but also entirely serious, like just about everything The Callous Daoboys do, from their artwork to their music to their lyrics to the very name of the band.

They committed to the bit for a good minute or so, until Matthew Hague their drummer gave a four-count and they segued seamlessly into one of their brutally discordant originals. At some point in the middle of the set, they started playing DJ Sammy's 2001 Eurodance cover of 'Heaven' over the PA, and then Carson - who was decked out in a Saweetie shirt - commanded the crowd to 'dance!' as he and the other seven members of The Callous Daoboys followed suit. And when they started playing, they sounded like mathcore's answer to Cursive, with their sinister horns and strings owing as much to The Ugly Organ as their riffs owe to We Are the Romans. When I walked into Knitting Factory Brooklyn this past June to see The Callous Daoboys opening up for LIMBS and Greyhaven, they had squeezed eight people onto the venue's relatively small stage - including two guitarists, a bassist, a drummer, a keyboardist, a violinist, a saxophonist, and their magnetic lead vocalist Carson Pace - looking something like mathcore's answer to Broken Social Scene.

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