Concert Review: Missio Become Party Shamans At Bowery Ballroom
While I had seen Missio before, this time, they felt completely new to me. Sometimes, the key to revamping your music is not making new songs as much as making yourself feel new. Missio’s Bowery Ballroom show was a lesson on how a style change can, literally, alter your sound.
If the first time I saw Missio, Matthew Brue was a rock n’ roller with penchants for darkness, but at the Bowery, he felt like a shaman. Wearing a white tunic and posing like Jesus absorbing the sun, I was taken aback by the peace he emanated in his performance. While he sang the same songs of getting so lit you might as well self-combust, he appeared so calm. In his previous show, he revealed his struggles with addiction, and how they inspired his sung testaments on feeling burnt out on feverish living. Yet, again, at the Bowery he seemed so distant from that mind-set, which made his songs transform into igniters of “healthy” partying.
MISSIO – Can I Exist (Official Video)
There must be such a thing as “healthy partying”, especially if we all know the “self-destructive” side of this pastime. While their songs, “Twisted”, “Middle Fingers”, “Kamikazee”, and “I Don’t Give A” still promoted the latter, Blue’s demeanor promoted submitting to fun rather than creating a chaotic, pseudo version of it. I grew fascinated with his changed, performance aesthetic like, watching a friend become more confident and self-assured. You cheer for them because they finally saw the light that they always were, and now have earned a greater crowd of admirers doing the same.
MISSIO – Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea (Official Video)
The audience ADORED Missio. They fully submitted to their offers of fun, euphoria, and slight existentialism. Their tracks are Trap, EDM waves blended with Hip Hop, Rock and even R&B dynamics, and morphed together in the same way technicolor pixels unite to form an image. Meanwhile, their “existential” lyricism are all about focusing on what is real and what is delusion when trying to have the best time. With their name blasted behind them, you felt more their distinction from other musicians trying to do the same. Yet, nobody could emulate Blue’s roaring voice, and its capacity to move throughout songs like plate-tectonics; changing the structures and textures of soundscapes like a human phenomena. For More Information On Missio Click Here.
MISSIO – Middle Fingers
