Jenny Hval @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 20 Aug

Future Get Down are the rare support act (especially as one-off support) that arrive fully formed and competely at ease with their surroundings. In their usual beekeeper garb, they batter through a range of dance-flecked krautrock rhythms, Oliver Kass howling and crooning like a psychedelic James Murphy, all the while backed by a barrage of spasmodic lights.

Jenny Hval and co help to remodel the stage between sets, adding a little foliage and moving the couch, later explaining that they want it to be like an “old theatre or play”. Performance is at least as important to this show as the music. Through the eight or so tracks that are delivered tonight, there are a series of seemingly disconnected stage directions that serve to distract/augment. These are performed mostly by the co-star of the Blood Bitch album cover, Orfee Schuijt, and include aerobics, banana eating, chilling on the couch, flower throwing, filming the crowd's feet, applying lipstick to the band, dancing with Hval and helping her into her Elton jacket.

Most of the set is drawn from last year's Blood Bitch (with the exception of Drive, a long spoken word piece that also interpolates 2015's Why This?), and the sparse arrangements are punctuated with synthesized beats, bass and various samples/loops (with Håvard Volden at the helm). Along with the light show this creates a much more full-bodied experience than the often delicate confessionals found on record.

Conceptual Romance ends the show on a high, with Schuijt leaving the theatrics to a minimum, allowing Hval to deliver a powerful and relatively straight version of Blood Bitch's second single in her shimmering jacket. The crowd's rapturous applause (they've been fairly staid most of the evening) beckons the band out for an encore, but they have to make do with a brief reappearance from Hval, smiling ear to ear, to give a small bow and thank you.