Sharing vocal duties three ways and only sporadically dipping into last year’s excellent debut album Light Up Gold, New York four-piece Parquet Courts didn’t make their third visit to Brighton in 11 months as easy as it could have been on fans.

Starting with a new, ten-minute dirge that seemed to be built around just two chords, the band waited 20 minutes before playing anything from their acclaimed album.

This wouldn’t have been a problem – no one expected a straight run-through – had the “older” material not shone so brightly from the middle of their set, clumped there in batches of threes and fours. Master Of My Craft segued wonderfully into Borrowed Time, with all its requisite pregnant pauses to boot. Careers In Combat too reminded just how off-handedly hilarious the group’s lyrics can be.

But soon it was back to murkier, unknown territory, leaving some in the audience to wonder if they hadn’t accidentally interrupted a studio jam.

Despite many fans having left early, Stoned And Starving was met with the biggest cheer of the night. But sadly, the evening felt stretched and uncomfortable, something of an indulgent run-through – albeit one with tantalisingly bright glimpses of genius.