Concert Review: Operators Digitize Rock At Bowery Ballroom
The thing about Operators, as a band, is that they are quintessential digital rock. Their shows make you feel cyber, which is a powerful effect considering we are never disconnected. The internet, whether you have it or not, have become a societal force that is constantly trickling information into every corner. Ignorance, now more than ever, is inexcusable, but has our digitized world made self-reflection inaccessible.
Just because you have the knowledge, does not mean you realize or even use it. Thus, the same tool, world wide web, that has connected worlds that have never known each other has also disconnected people from knowing themselves. HOW IRONIC! “Memories of The Future,” “I Feel Emotion,” “Damage,” and “I’mm Confused” feel ripped from the diary pages of the last bleeding heart on this earth. Lead singer Dan Boeckner delivers verses like he is man both proud and ashamed that he has sentiment. From “Despair” to “Low Life,” he meticulously emotes that it a beautiful tragedy to be the last one that feels. Moreover, he moves on, and even off, the stage like hard wire clipped to spark.
Operators – Faithless (Visualizer)
In the end, what is so fascinating about an Operators show is that it makes you see there is not much difference digital rock and dystopian rock. Both play to a world/ future where society machinated what it is to be “human” so much that it killed its essence. Instead, pent-up emotions from years of violent, global histories and personal, disruptive choices were exacerbated by technology, and, in not learning to heal, humans became numb. WOAH, THAT GOT DEEP! Yet, in an Operators show it is hard not to get inside the mind of your mind with all the images splashing around them. Operators are meta like that.
Operators’ songs feel constant and synchronized in fluidity; as if thoughts were doing swimming acrobatics in your hear and your gaze upon them was unstoppable. Thus, Operators are not concert as much as step out of the routine. For More Information On Operators Click Here.
