Photos By Emily Cohen, Words By Brandon Weight
In a packed room early on Sunday night, The Naked and Famous absolutely thrilled the audience. With their trademark electro-pop, killer light show, and a sea of bobbing heads in front of them, the band made Sunday evening that much sweeter.
Epic, obviously, is thrown around way too often. And not that it entirely applies to NaTF’s set, but it was more like a rapture, with everyone ascending to heaven. Feel good songs like “Don’t Wait,” “Punching in a Dream,” and their newest hit “Hearts Like Ours,” kept building this warm aura, maybe not of pure joy, but of a content nature. Each song felt like it shouldn’t end, but when it did, everybody was ready to join the wave of the next song.
Shout out to The Colorist (Colorii?), too. In much of the similar style, their dance-ready rock hits provided the perfect pre-game for what was to come. It was like seeing Two Door Cinema Club open for Phoenix in 2010. The production value wasn’t there like the headliners, and understandably so, but The Colorist looked like a group ready to hit it big. Much like TDCC, who recently headlined at DAR Constitution Hall.
THE LIGHTS THOUGH. Seriously. With two arcs of insane lasers and colored LEDs, the light show mimicked that of top-tier DJs touring the festival circuit. And while the show was about to draw to a close with their famous hit “Young Blood,” a rotating spotlight back lit Thom Powers’ on the keyboards while he was singing. The entire crowd, myself included, were entrapped in this musical high, fixated not on the powerful nature of the lyrics nor the synthesized sounds, but rather this eerily innate draw to this great feeling. So maybe epic could apply.
The Colourist
