All four members � Mars, Laurent Brancowitz, Deck d'Arcy and Christian Mazzalai � stood in a line at the front of the stage, forming an almost impenetrable wall as they raged through songs from the new record. But even though their stance was uniform, the French band was anything but stiff. On nearly every song, Brancowitz and d'Arcy switched off between guitar and keyboards, sometimes playing both at the same time. Mars made singing look easy as he sweetly strained for the high notes on "The Real Thing" and sassily crooning the most quotable lyric that is definitely worthy of its own t-shirt ("Mint julep testosterone") on "Trying To Be Cool." more.

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