Gengahr @ Deaf Institute, Manchester, 8 Dec

London’s Gengahr have chosen Manchester to end their latest UK tour, a string of dates that closes the door on debut album A Dream Outside and starts their journey towards their second release.

Opening the night are tour support Caro – there's a clear Maccabees influence emerging from their set, tackling that band's familiar combination of gentle introductions and harsh culminations within each song. With only a couple of tracks made available online this year, the Leeds trio show enough to suggest that a promising 2017 waits them.

By now, The Deaf Institute is heaving, as a sold-out crowd waits for Gengahr to take to the stage. They open with the as yet unreleased Mallory, which immediately makes clear that the band are sitting on material that could even top what was found on A Dream Outside, before launching straight into fan favourite Heroine. The quartet immediately display a much more confident stage presence than they have shown previously, proving that they themselves have grown and developed along with their music.

The gentle, falsetto vocals of singer Felix Bushe almost shouldn’t fit with the harsh guitar sounds of Dizzy Ghosts and new song Before Sunrise, but for Gengahr it's the perfect accompaniment to what has become their signature sound. Fill My Gums With Blood, their first release, isn’t the first song you’d think a young crowd would start a mosh pit to, but by the final roar of John Victor’s guitar in finale Powder, the packed room is pulsating with excitement. As though there was any doubt, the atmosphere tonight can only assure Gengahr that the adoration of their fans won’t disappear any day soon.