Concert Review: Future Generations Give You A Concert You Wish Were Your Routine
Is it bad that someone was a solid show? Usually, in most reviews, the option is either good or bad, but what about someone who serves you stability or a feeling of consistent pleasure. Future Generations played a great show at Knitting Factory, but part of what stood out of their performance was a feeling that I could see it again and again as if it were apart of my day like, seeing my favorite show Tuesdays at 9 or having coffee every morning at 7.
We all judge and adore routines because spontaneity sounds “wilder”, but Future Generations feels like a light beam shooting through a forest; for all the wildness surrounding it in scrubbed synths and greened drums, they appear clear, straight, and focused. Tracks like, “You’ve Got Me Flush”, “Stars”, and “One More Problem” sounded like rays stretching across an influx of emotions. For however much Eddie Gore sings and plays his keys with feeling, you cannot help but feel he is observing his sentiments more than reliving, which brings its own attractive dynamic. There are those like, Monakr, that make you feel as if you are experiencing their relationships’ end, live, in their show, with each song being something they said to their lover. Yet, Future Generations treat their songs like recaps of the desires and duds that have hit their young lives, which makes their takes refreshing. From “Rain” to “Coast” , their music is a narration to every moment in your life when you felt like “bigger things” could be apart of your routine. As Gore sang each tracks he closed his eyes, and fell into songs like a skydiver from a plane: trusting that music would be an automatic parachute for his heart. Mike Sansevere (synthesizer), Eric Grossman (guitar), Devon Sheridan (bass) and Dylan Wells (percussion) were each excellent, and it was fascinating to see their dynamic as friends touring the U.S. in music that never tires because it is theirs.
There was certainly a feeling throughout the show, in watching their interchanged jokes and looks while playing, that Future Generations are brothers in music or, rather, indie-pop. Hence, that “recap/ routine” feel emanated as one to show that a good concert feel good because it also feels like it belong in your day. For More Information On Future Generation Click Here.
