Concert Review: A Fragile Tomorrow Sing To A Generation Loss

From our global economy to climate change, for many youths, it is like they became young at the worst time. You cannot ignore that life expectancy and quality feels a little less exuberant for rising generations who wish they could enjoy their baby-faced features and invincibility complexes with more peace. Thus, you cannot deny there is A Fragile Tomorrow, of which the band, sharing the same name, didn’t at Way Station. 

As a society we have the tendency to skate over pain; never going beneath the ice to see how deep and cold our hurts run, but never deciding to leave the frozen pond and walk to greener pastures. I know I can get very “parabley,” but so can A Fragile Tomorrow. Their songs feel like warms pats on youth’s broken backs. Tracks like, “Circling” or “Dig Me Out” are like acknowledgments to listeners that you are not wrong; society makes a lot of noise for not making a song. Led by Sean Kelley, him and his brothers, of which bassist Shaun Rhodes is practically family, moving  like a unit of passion, and using their songs such as, “Generation Loss,” like three minute volcanic eruptions of emotions. 

A Fragile Tomorrow take an old school view of dealing with pain; “cry for 15 minutes and find a solution,” except you cry or vent in a song. Kelley really takes this MO by heart, and feels almost porous in how he emotes notes and energy It is as if he sees his vocal range like water going through rocks of doubt, fear, anger, and wonder over a species that know everything it has and is doing wrong ….. but still does it. That species is humanity, just in case, and Kelley uses his voice as a way to represent what is and what should never be about it. How very Led Zeppelin for him! 

Perhaps, the best thing about A Fragile Tomorrow is that they feel local. They feel like a band that travels through citied venues and bars to give brief, musical moments of joy and catharsis. I know that I pretty much described what every band does, but there are certain artists that remind you of the roots of music. The ones that show you for all the “machinery” that pumps their image, they really are human beings trying to remind everyone else that they are too. For More Information On A Fragile Tomorrow Click Here.