Meet The Vamps was a first foray into album making that was certainly impactful and undeniably iconic, treating listeners to classics like ‘Wild Heart,’ ‘Somebody To You’ and ‘Can We Dance’ that continue to strike the hearts of fans and audiences worldwide today.
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All the challenges faced made seeing Michigander this April all the more rewarding. With a re-energized passion for the music, Jason Singer brought a sleepy Sunday crowd absolutely alive that night in Philadelphia. Lovely opening sets were played by both local artist, Matt Fell, and Michiganders spring tour companion, Abby Holiday, Following, Michigander took the stage in a moment of complete excitement. With witty and encouraging stage banter, Jason Singer put on a lively performance.
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Madisenxoxo has retained that initial vulnerability when it comes to song-writing, but the latter
boast much denser and ornately textured soundscapes. Professionally trained in the Jazz genre,
and debuting with a contemporary sound of bedroom pop in the frenetically innovative vein of
beabadoobee, Clairo and Billie Eilish’s debut studio-release, Don’t Smile at Me, Madisenxoxo
has a cosmos of aural possibilities at her fingertips.
While collapsing an artist with two decades’ worth of music, eight diegetically-unique albums and such a number of production-phases that bringing up how many times the band has broken up and gotten back together is one of the Emo scene’s most cited in-jokes, is arguably an indiscriminate judgement call, I would describe “Hold Me Like a Grudge” as quintessentially Fall Out Boy.
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The risk of sounding repetitive is simply one that comes with the territory, as many alt rock fanatics surely know by now. And yet somehow, Halogens manage to avoid this risk completely, balancing a fine line between experimentation within one’s sound and establishing what that sound even is in the first place.
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