Lead guitarist Tyler Ramsey opened up the show with a solo set. Displaying an impressive dexterity on acoustic guitar, Ramsey gave a short-but-pleasant performance. His gentle tunes lulled the audience into a pleasantly languid mood. This mellowness would stand in stark contrast to the blast of sonics that rang out when the full band took to the stage.

For nearly two hours, Band of Horses put on a show nearly as big as the heroic scenes of the American West projected behind them. Hitting early and often, Band of Horses nearly blew the top off the Ogden when the whole band kicked in on the heavily-licensed-for-commercial-use, “The Funeral.” The band did not let up as they stacked highlight after highlight on top of each other with "Is There a Ghost?," "NW Apartment" and "The General Specific." Even technical difficulties couldn't siphon the band's momentum on one of their poppiest cuts, "Dilly," which still maintained its neon cowboy moxie.

Band of Horses' well-spun rural epics conjure oceans of dust and desert, "Laredo," mountaintop scale and clarity, "No One's Gonna Love You," and even the New West transition from cattle brands to clothing brands in "The Great Salt Lake." None of this was left behind to rest on the group's studio recordings. Their vigorous strums required constant guitar switches and roadie retuning. Impressively, the band showed no signs of tour fatigue and seemed to enjoy playing their tunes as much as the crowd enjoyed hearing them. The band showcased their sharpness by deftly handling the tempo-changing "Islands on the Coast." Singer and principle songwriter Ben Bridwell constantly dug from his gold-mine of a voice to gild his underrated mountain-range melodies; expertly navigating the instrumental waves of music to achieve maximum lift and thrust. Multi-instrumentalist Ryan Monroe took the vocal helm for a gorgeous rendering of "Older," much to the delight to a large section of his family located above him in the balcony. As the evening's end came into sight and the band climbed into the chorus of "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands," the audience joined in for the most rousing sing along of the night. Band of Horses rode that energy through the rest of their set and even onto encore peak; the minor rebellion anthem, "Weed Party;" ensuring that the last note had as much power per square inch as the first.

Band of Horses showed that, despite the demise of that self-described "weird" tour with Kings of Leon, they would still go all-out in stuffing their larger-than-life sounds into a smaller venue.