Concert Review: L.A. Salami Pushes Rough Trade Into The Age of Glass

Acid Trips, mecophiles, and spoken word poesies over a waning guitar, L.A. Salami displayed the artful line between insanity and genius at Rough Trade. He was like a mad-hatter for Brooklynites who wear their creativity on their painted, self-sown sleeve. He showed that one man’s sorted batch of treasured thoughts can be chested in a crowd’s mind, and that poetry is the beautiful language of those who see human derangement.

Throughout songs like “Generation Lost”, “As Before”, and “Day By Day: 6 Days A Week”, L.A. Salami felt like the freshest rendition of Alice In Wonderland. The youthful audience sat at his decorative, magical table as he poured, or rather sang, the tea of what it is to have so much to give, so much you want to achieve, and still be under 25. This struck the young crowd as they dreamed of better, more peaceful resolutions for a world still clasping at older ways of violence. There is no doubt that rising generations will be kinder than ones before because the ones before were kinder than the ones before them. L.A. Salami’s friendliness and awareness was a show of that.
L.A. Salami – Generation L(ost) (Official Video)

In between lavender beanies, red berets, t-shirts catch-phrasing mantras, and an overall audience that felt looked like they had be stylized by a Brooklyn art-fest, I was enamored by how L.A. Salami is building a compassionate culture around his sound. He felt like the poster boy for young men and women who are fearless in style and fashion both literally and morally. His cool voice turned like a dial; able to range through any soundscape, from jazzy to punk, along with any social injustice.That ability to bend genres as much as social commentary made the audience absorb his vocal swims like grass does rain; their natures and consistency may be different, but, in the end, grass needs rain to grow, and rain wants something to grow.
L.A. Salami – Jean Is Gone

Symbiosis and symbolism riled through L.A. Salami’s set that featured new songs from his upcoming album, The City of Bookmakers (Out April 13). From “I Wear This Because Life Is War” and “Going Mad As The Street Bins”, L.A. Salami proved he is a fearless story-teller.While his guitar melodies feel like an inner competition between acoustics and baselines, over who can make the other bleed and cry more for a glorious note, his songs are tales about human beings trying to do the same. Why we confuse hurting each other for helping each other is beyond me, but L.A. Salami is another rising, sonic awakening to the clash of this thought. For More Information On L.A. Salami Click Here.
L.A. Salami – Day To Day (for 6 days a week)