Stephen Andrews, Tawny Carson, Kevin Ignatius and Daniel Medina began their set with a series of playful synth-pop tunes, madly spread with weird electronic noises in between male or female vocals, and although the mezzanine stage of the store did not allow for a lot of physical expression, there was a sort of energy coming from upstairs during ‘Focus on the physical’.
Some big names have been thrown in magazines talking about the band, such as Peter Gabriel (‘So’ period), and I kind of hear that in a track like ‘Architect’, or early Michael Jackson (still the 80’s!), or MGMT (a relatively rare contemporary reference) and once again I can hear it in ‘Dt. Lipps’
Everyone in the band seemed to be multi-instrumentalist or bivalent, as they switch from synth to guitar, or from vocals to drums, Tawny Carson taking the mic to sing after one of the guys.
But their songs were as diverse as these numerous comparisons, and became more poppy than electronic after a few songs were played, introducing new instruments like horns and trumpets for some other tunes, which strangely married with their spacey electronic bits and their high-pitch wobbling synth.
And I became to enjoy much more their set when it turned into these melody-oriented-all-emotional-vocals-deployed songs instead of these first electro-mash-up tunes.