Fire-Traumatized Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions Soothed Minds at the Neptune Last Night

Anti-diva Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions delivered blissful, consoling ballads at the Neptune last nightby Dave SegalTaking a page from the Robert Fripp handbook of audience etiquette. Dave Segal
The contrast between Tuesday night's King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard gig at Neptune and last night's Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions show at the same venue couldn't be more stark. The former: seven Aussie bros sounding as if they were playing Focus' "Hocus Pocus" after gobbling fistf