Concert Review: High Waisted Are High Octane At Rough Trade NYC

That is it! Before the year ends, I am going to do a Top 10 Women Rockers article because there are just TOO MANY femme-rockets hitting the stage. People may feel torn when acknowledging the femininity of an amazing rocker because “amazing” has no gender, but it IS treated like it does. Thus, when you find women that front bands of predominantly “male genres” with all men backing them, but yet, “she” is the “tour de force”, you gravitate to them because they prove that truth. High Waisted’s Jessica Louise Dye shows a star has no gender: only light.

Jessica Louise Dye circles the stage like a lioness looking for her cubs. She has feral strength masked with natural grace and a scoping curiosity. With smiles and twinkles in her eyes, she is looking into her audience to see how she can make them look at her and and her band of brothers. All you want to do is watch this group bash around through songs “Firebomb”, “Shithead”, and “Party In The Back” as if their instruments were also the activators of their soul. The minute those chords start to rise so do they like zombies being brought back to life. I know that is a spooky reference, but it comes with a powerful notion. For some artist, music truly is their life. You, as an audience, feel like it saves them or brings out their true personality. For High Waisted, music brings out their joy, genius, and fearlessness, of which you cannot help but feel like you are walking out the same way. Dye’s voice feels like a gentle wave curdling with a foamed base and surfing drum to make you frothed in uproarious psychedelia. (Oh, and the balloons and kaleidoscope/ anti-corporate messages certainly helped!)

For however “loud” they may get, their is subtle hypnosis to their music that make you want to lie back into their sound and float into their images. High Waisted proves that surf rock injects into your soul to give you an elevating adrenaline; unlike the crashing one we get so used to at the club. For me, their songs like, “Trust” and “Misirlou”, are WRITTEN with Millennial feels. When you are young you are divided between desires, egos, anxiety, and the knowledge you have that the worlds can do better in every aspect of  life but you have no clue as to how. All that meets up in the fun nights you spend laughing and “bad dancing” (lol!) with your friends, to feel a sense of freedom again. High Waisted give you that freedom. For More Information on High Waisted Click Here.