“Being dramatic is their charm, but here they let go of a degree of preciousness, allowing themselves to react to the audience’s gusto”: Riverside are charged up on Live ID

Riverside – Live ID.

When Riverside released their eighth studio album ID.Entity in 2023, it served not just to demonstrate their ongoing ability to make their songs stride and soar, but as proof that they were survivors.

The death of guitarist Piotr Grudzinski in 2016 had naturally unsettled them. But the river has kept on flowing, with two albums released since, and Maciej Meller now a full member.