Live iPhone notes below…
--- “Anagram” is meh as an opener. No hook, no build. It's all flickers, no true spark. That said, the last few seconds are cool.
--- Immediate improvement with “It's About Time.” Drive, flair, YES.
--- Yay, “Apartment”: smooooth as ever.
--- The Hark Tagunicar finger-palm tango made “Strings” way better than it had any right to be.
--- First-rate falsetto on “waterfall” during “Guns Out.”
--- “Teachers” saved by the trance at the end. Even bigger save at the end of “Paralysis.”
--- “Firelight”!!! Matthue Rama has “Islands” as his sleeper favorite; I have “Firelight.”
--- “I Got” sounds like Vampire Weekend. Glad windshield survivors Matt DeCarlo and Emily Steakley agree. Isn’t long before the entire group will “rise in song” because next up is...
“Cough Syrup!!” Intimate, athletic, so good.
--- “Mind Over Matter.” Other than the NYC reference, not a huge fan of the title track. Did dig the bold new album of the same name, however. Glad Kyle Carlock eventually did as well.
--- My only big regret: where was the explosive “God Made Man”?! They made up for it with a win at the end: “My Body”!! Stands out from anything else in the show.
Grade: B+
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