Los Campesinos! @ Stereo, Glasgow, 28 Apr

Facilitated by the unprecedented four-year gap between No Blues and Sick Scenes, LC! have managed to transition from peppy, twee upstarts to veterans on the British indie-rock scene. The strength and breadth of their set at Stereo tonight only strengthens this belief.

Drawing from a deep well of creativity, they play a set slightly skewed towards more recent material, but with at least one song from each of their six albums. Though there's very little difference in the reaction from the crowd to a song from twelve years ago or two months ago; it's rapturous delight across the board.

Gareth thanks the audience after each song as a matter of course, but it's the easy manner in which he jokes and banters with the crowd that belies a genuine appreciation of what the loyal LC! fans allow the band to do. He thanks us for bearing with them through the new songs (there's only been five), and, after consulting the set list, ensures us that the rest of the set is “pure gold”. Straight in at 101, Hello Sadness and We are Beautiful, We are Doomed follow, all with every word sung/screamed right back at the band, vindicating Gareth's assertion.

The contemplative Fall of Home opens the encore and allows the first real moment of calm, but it's quickly shattered by the arrival of the crescendoing intro of You! Me! Dancing! As the iconic riff kicks in, the crowd go absolutely bananas; singing, dancing, moshing, shouting – a total loss of inhibition in the name of having a good time. The seemingly spontaneous closer, In Media Res, is a perfect addendum to the night; its measured meditations on mortality providing a dose of reality that seemed far away during the manic delirium of Y!M!D!