Concert Review: Field Medic Saves With Humor At Baby’s All Right
At Baby’s All Right, Field Medic lived up to his name in a strange way. When we think of “field medics,” we envision EMT’s running through war-torn plains to heal and hold up the injured. Yet, for Field Medic, the artist, the only thing that is ravaging people is their lack of humor and love, of which he provides professional/ folk-tuned healing for the soul.
From saying he stole from Santa to a song titled, “I can’t deal with it getting dark so early, it makes me wanna curl up & die,” Field Medic’s idiosyncratic, irreverent humor is what drew him a properly blended crowd. From late twenty to thirty somethings that understood his concise, quick wit on life’s bitterer notes to teens/ young twenty year olds that found his dry hilarity endearing, Field Medic’s ironic approach to love felt intellectually human. His music embodies something we all do when love stumps us, life stops us, and we cannot figure out how to resolve either; we smile, emotionally shut down in public, and sink into depression once we get into our room.
You may laugh at my prior statement, but Field Medic has a way of making intelligent, sardonic verses that make light of how humanity makes light of its darkness. We use sarcasm as a tool to approach problems we do not know how to fix/deal with, and from “Powerful Love” to “pegasusthotz,” the audience responded to him like he was their modern folk hero. Rocking black nail polish and open to discussing his search for gel, Field Medic felt like he could have been plucked from the crowd while, simultaneously, proving he stands out from it. He was a balancing act; exemplifying that with all an individual’s quirks, we are simply human. The strange thing is that he could emanate that point in a 1 one minute guitar melody.
Field Medic’s tracks can be short. It is as if he ends songs on their build; leaving no need to give a dramatic or longer conclusion. For him, tracks are tiny opuses that solely have to get to the emotion of a situation/ person. With a voice that feels like James Taylor and Damien Rice put their vocals in a bag, shook it hard, and sculpted one perfect, united vocality, Field Medic proves that no one will ever grow tired of a good ol’ folk singer. For More Information on Field Medic Click Here.
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