Deer Tick Bring Coin-O-Matic Home to a Devoted Royale Crowd
There's a particular kind of band that doesn't need to introduce themselves to their audience. Deer Tick walked out to the Indiana Jones theme on Thursday night at The Royale in Boston, and the room was already with them before they played a note.
The Providence band is on the road celebrating Coin-O-Matic, their ninth studio album released earlier this month on ATO Records. The record is a love letter to Rhode Island. Its working-class histories, its mob underworld, its characters and contradictions. Opening on “Dog Years" before moving through “Mary Singletary" and “ACI," the band leaned heavily on the new material while making room for catalog favorites that their clearly devoted crowd knew front to back.
Opener Jobi Riccio, a Nashville-based singer-songwriter originally from Colorado who has toured with Lucius, Jason Isbell, and Iron & Wine, warmed up the room with a set that matched the night's rootsy register well.
What comes through most watching Deer Tick live is the chemistry of a band that has been playing together for a long time. Frontman John McCauley, guitarist Ian O'Neil, drummer Dennis Ryan, and bassist Christopher Ryan move through material with the ease of people who have long since stopped thinking about the mechanics and can just play. The 25-song set spanned two-plus decades of material and closed with the band going full acoustic without mics for a stretch late in the set.
Coin-O-Matic is out now on ATO Records. Deer Tick continue touring through the fall.
DEER TICK SETLIST:
Dog Years
Mary Singletary
Baltimore Blues No. 1
Miss K.
Everything Born
Easy
Once in a Lifetime
Me and My Man
ACI
Mange
Born to Lose (The Heartbreakers cover)
Dirty Dishes
Sweetest Things
Twenty Miles
Jumpstarting
The Dream's in the Ditch
Exit Door
Candy Cigarettes
Big House (with Jobi Riccio)
Christ Jesus (Solo electric → full band)
Smith Hill (Full Band Acoustic, No Mic)
Let's All Go to the Bar
Hope Is Big
Running From Love
Ashamed
