Concert Review: Husky Loops Take You Elsewhere

For bands all around the world, New York is a music capital; make it here, make it anywhere. For us, New Yorkers, its hard to believe how much our city means to others. (Have they seen our MTA system?) Yet, for Husky Loops, playing their first NYC show at Elsewhere, was like life assuring them that it was working in their favor, which is ironic considering they sing to Life’s repeated attempts to make you feel otherwise.
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Sometimes, I wonder if the best a person can feel is unhappily happy. Most of us fight our joy or reaching for dreams because we believe there is a “mystical place” in life that will give us permission to launch forward or exist with no problems. Yet, songs such as, “Let’s Go For Nothing,” ‘When I Come Home,” and “20 Blanks” felt like the realizations of a person deciding that such a place is non-existent. Lyrically, Husky Loops go for the crux every person must cross at accepting there is no better day than today: even if you really don’t like it. Their casually comely verses are perfect such a message.

It is their demeanor if “regularness” that makes Husky Loops feel so promising as a group. While many people sing to life being unfair, audience members measure genuineness by energy, and these London/ Bologna guys fit into New York’s Three M’s: magic, misfit, and mood. Their sound spans through all genres of rock to exemplify how moody we can get when we feel like we are not “getting” what life has or should have for us. The result are melodies that go from magical to mischievous, but feel interchangeable thanks to Pier Danio Forni annotates his voice like a man summoning your heart and igniting your wild, which, again, can mean the same thing.

Pier’s voice feels like a radio; static and endless in its offering. From “Good As Gold” to “Tempo,” you could literally feel the sparking, electric wires he calls vocal chords uniting to give us a hit. As he moved around the stage, keeling over as his heart wanted to play the guitar as his hands, he encapsulated Husky Loops ultimate aura/ theme: JUST LIVE! For More Information On Husky Loops Click Here.