Concert Review: ADOY Brings Wonder To LPR
As I walked into LPR, I met a musician; an Alaskan that had come to see ADOY perform in NYC. Like many musicians, who lived or often traveled here, he was convinced that there was no place like New York for music: even L.A. To him, New York was not just about whether you made as much as what you make in it. ADOY matched that New York energy of treating every moment like a chance to make something as much as go somewhere,
A South Korean band, the group was excited to perform the LPR crowd, and their FANS WERE HYPED. It was the equivalent to when someone asks if I like Bad Bunny: not realizing he is a Latin American icon. Sometimes, it is easy to forget there is a world beyond New York or the U.S. because the world is here and can be influence by us. From how they swayed their instruments or pushed his verses into the air like smokes meeting oxygen, they felt like the absolute perfection of an American band; picking up every cool innuendo and heartfelt palpitation label crooners push to our masses. Frankly, I loved it.
ADOY feels like an art study of music, which, again, is a NYC vibe. New Yorkers, whether born here or coming from some other state because you felt “here” was your destiny, both natives and new hearts are all philosophers. We live off of the idea that there is something to uncover, and tracks like, ” Antihero” and “Baby,” felt like blankets being lifted from deeper questions: like why are we who we are. Of course, I did not understand a lot of lyrics, but humanity speaks beyond words. It talks in feelings, and when you add music, those feelings explode into universality. ADOY was universal in New York, and watching them felt good.