Car Seat Headrest @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 18 May

Compared to the coy, straightlaced performances that Will Toledo and co. were giving just a couple of years ago, this touring incarnation of Car Seat Headrest is a whole different beast. The change is exemplified by the opening cover of Talking Heads' Crosseyed and Painless, a funky, danceable cut that shows Toledo really stepping into his frontman persona, something he's grown into with aplomb over the years.

Adding the whole of support act Naked Giants to their live set-up (making a six-piece) frees up Toledo enabling him to focus solely on singing and dancing, only occasionally stepping behind the keyboard and only playing guitar on a brilliantly sparse rendering of Sober to Death, though he does forget where the mic is on more than one occasion.

A more melodic re-imagining of Fill in the Blank doesn't quite have the same bite as the original, but once the chorus kicks in the show really comes to life and the packed house rarely let up for the next sweaty hour and change. Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales and Beach Life-in-Death are the expected high points with even the band acknowledging that the crowd “know more of the words than anywhere else,” but an indie-rock rendition of Jimmy Webb's covered-to-death Do What You Gotta Do is the set's real gem (the cover of Frank Ocean's White Ferrari falls a little flat as the crowd are too riled up and noisy after an ill-timed “Here we fuckin' go” chant to really appreciate the evening's tenderest moment).

By the end of unexpected closer Nervous Young Inhumans, the band have really shown how they can put a bit of physicality into Toledo's fairly cerebral meditations. Some of the nuance may be lost in the delivery, but you can't deny the sheer fun of it all.