But it’s not as if Watson and band are flamboyant, showy performers. Quite the contrary. their onstage persona is introverted: he’s lost in the music when performing and charmingly self-conscious and awkward when addressing the fans, while his bandmates – guitarist Simon Angell, bassist Mishka Stein, drummer Robbie Kuster and violinist Melanie Belair – take almost no solos, obsessed only with the collective textures that make these songs devotional whispers or stormy epics.
