Concert Review: Andy Suzuki And The Method Bring A Sandlot Of Fun To Mercury Lounge

Andy Suzuki And The Method brought electro-soul and electrifying R&B to Mercury Lounge. After releasing the phenomenal The Glass Hour, which I reviewed, the young artist is riding high on the intuitive feeling that the greatness he carries will be met with the greatness life can offer. Andy approached the stage with excitement as if he knew before anyone, that this performance is the beginning of many more to come in many halls/acclaimed arenas.

Celebrating his album, Suzuki blazed the stage with the natural adrenaline performing gives an artist. He was jittering with joy to publicly relish in music that years to make, and has placed Suzuki in the finest, promising moment of his career. It could be this self-awareness that made his performance so brisk to viewers. Between dancing glides to his full-on connection with the audience, Suzuki brimmed with a child-like eagerness to show his love for music, as if she was in the back waiting for him to propose marriage. There are people who love music for what it gives them, as persons, and there are those who appreciate it as a mystical energy that has confounded humans throughout history. I like to include Andy Suzuki and The Method in the latter, which could explain their charming bravado. When you know you have “it”, why act like you do not. Suzuki knows he has talent as he riffed a solo rendition of “Let It Be”, and hit a high range in both notes and emotions of which he oozed through every physical gesture.  Moreover, you do not wear a tank-top with the face of Hamilton “Ham” Porter, from The Sandlot film, if you are not a man that appreciates living life to fullest and also calling Babe Ruth “The Great Bambino”. 

We all have certain tells or things that reveal our person to others. For some reason, that Ham Porter tank solidified that Andy Suzuki and The Method want to have a good time, especially Kozza Babumba. The producer/ drummer/ tambourine man was filled with jokes, and helped add a “brotherhood” and cheer between songs that could go from joyous to thoughtful. Although I would definitely categorize them as “soul”, Andy Suzuki And The Method blend so many other genres.  From the Texan-coutnry infused “Digging My Way Out”  or the the loving lyricism/ sweet R&B of “Shelter”, a beautiful song dedicated to the  refuge relationships can give us from the darkness of the world, there was a wealth of music sounds to enjoy. Yet, again, no matter what genre they leap into, Andy Suzuki And The Method fall back on high-octane energy and sentimentality to assure that both they and audience recognize a spirit can go anywhere if it belongs everywhere. Andy Suzuki And The Method belong EVERYWHERE from your album collection to Madison Square Garden. For More Information on Andy Suszki And The Method Click Here.