Concert Review: Hatchie Is Seussian At Rough Trade
I’ve seen Hatchie a few times, and what intrigues me about her performance style is that she is a total mood: both for her crowd and her. I’ve seen her give a raucous show and I have seen her be completely chill on stage. I have seen her bounce around and I have seen her stay in place. Yes, I am slightly Dr. Seussian in my rhetoric, but, at Rough Trade, Hatchie felt like a Seussian look into being twenty-something and having no idea what that means.
Sugar & Spice
You bring with you
The purest blue
The brightest blue
Maybe you should take a lesson
From the moon on how to handle
Eyes on you
You see, Seussian! From “Obsessed” to “Try,” Hatchie balanced her high-energy and utter relaxation with the battle between self-awareness and self-consciousness. She represented all the times you were divided between two spaces: the one you were literally in and the one in your head. For a lot of us, we never leave our mind, which makes being twenty-something feel exceptionally hard. I don’t know about you, Meg Jay, but, sometimes, my twenties feel more dead than defining. It is a constant hustle of “doing” and hoping that leads to somewhere.
Hatchie – Obsessed (Official Video)
For her crowd, staring at her like she was the dreamy moon to their many dark nights, Hatchie’s songs were looped in lyrics that repeated uncertainty. Uncertainty of love! Uncertainty of self! Uncertainty of where you parked your car! Okay, that last part was on me, but doubt laces in her lyrics and feeds the potency of her quiet, dry wit. Sometimes, we think an image is this elaborate, sparking picture and effect, kind of like the McDonald’s t-shirt she wore, but not necessarily. In her cool meekness, she showed intelligence and observance do not clatter to be heard as much flow to be listened to. Hatchie was easy about feeling complicated, which is so NOW when it comes to music.
Hatchie – Stay With Me (Official Video)
From Snail Mail to Noname, there are so many young women rising through introspection. They have inserted a mirror not in their hearts, but in in their minds to see how their thought dissect and dilute their feelings, which, again, is such a twenty-something to do. You still have the passion of being young but the experience to know that your youth doesn’t protect you from how old your choices make you feel. For More Information On Hatchie Click Here.
