Toby Driver 10/22/18 Cafe 9

Toby Driver is the front man for Boston-based chamber metal outfit Kayo Dot. On this evening, it was a solo outing armed with just guitar and laptop. The songs were tectonically slow building squalls of sound. Sludgy, looped guitar and mournful vocals sounded like a movie score or a Twin Peaks bar band set. Driver's bio has him "singing" with such avant garde luminaries as John Zorn and Jeremiah Cymerman. With no song introduction or inter-song banter, the music felt like a soundtrack to a non-English speaking movie. Kayo Dot and Driver make an original  but somewhat unpleasant sound.